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- Nov 07, 2020
Hands Quotes
On whose hands hold wealth, power, and craft.
Hands shows up here mostly as a metaphor for control - who holds wealth, who creates it, and who is trusted with responsibility - rather than anything literal. For a related theme of doing rather than holding, see Action.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I get stopped by the police, I keep my hands on the wheel. I'm not going to move.
- Embodies
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- Nov 07, 2020
A shinobi embodies an archetype that is able to use everything at their disposal. They don't pick a fighting style; they use every means and everything they can get their hands on. They exploit every weakness.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like my hands. They're certainly scarred up, but they're wormy. They're knuckly. They're hands that have done stuff, and they're not going anywhere.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
We increasingly live in societies based on the vocabulary of 'choice' and a denial of reality - a denial of massive inequality, social disparities, the irresponsible concentration of power in relatively few hands, and a growing machinery of social and civil death.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020