Elizabeth Ann Seton Quotes
When so rich a harvest is before us, why do we not gather it? All is in our hands if we will but use it.
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When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
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The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.
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With the discovery of the Higgs boson, one of the questions has been ticked off the list, but there are many others. We hope that we can find answers or hints for answers to at least some of them. But of course, this is in the hands of nature.
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I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.
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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
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Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves.
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My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.
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When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort it.
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This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.
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It's just unfortunate that a network only makes their profit off of live viewership because their hands are tied by advertisers. They may believe in the show and want it to continue, but they just unfortunately can't afford it.
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Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.
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I feel like I get more by highlighting with an actual highlighter in my hands. I process more of it. It's a better way for me to study.
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You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.
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It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.
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You could have the world in the palm of your hand, but it don't mean a thing 'til you change it.
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At that moment I had a thrilling sharp intuition. I knew it as if I held it in my hands: In the gloom of death that surrounded the two of us, we were just at the point of approaching and negotiating a gentle curve. If we bypassed it, we would split off into different directions. In that case, we would forever remain just friends.
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The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.
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He couldn’t say the words, had spent too long in Silence, but he’d learned other ways to speak. Taking the paperweight she’d knocked off her desk out of his pocket, he put it in her hands. “It’s fixed. As long as you don’t mind more than a few scars.
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One hand, five homes. A lifetime in a fist.
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I began going to juvenile prisons. And some of these kids face some very, very tough lives. How do they handle these lives? Do they even know that if their life is bad, that they're still OK? Do they know that? Do they know that someone is thinking the same way that they're thinking?
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But when it comes to democratic political parties, I prefer that monks and nuns not join them - in order to ensure proper democratic practice.
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What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!
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When so rich a harvest is before us, why do we not gather it? All is in our hands if we will but use it.
