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I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
Martin Luther

God, Lost, Whatever

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.
Coco Chanel

Women, Men, Mother

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
Mahatma Gandhi

Men, Society, After

Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.
Thomas Sowell

After, Big, Few

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Norman Vincent Peale

Anyone, Empty, Hearts

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
Charles Alexander Eastman

Friendship, Family, Character

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.
Groucho Marx

I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs.
Barack Obama

Pain, Lost, Battle

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?
Barack Obama

Everything, Control, Understand

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Life, Hope, Belief

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
Emily Dickinson

Death, Stop, Ourselves

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Bertrand Russell

Opinion, Fact, Whatever

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Religion, Country, Sign

If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.
Hans Eysenck

Truth, Bad, Beliefs

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.
Ron Paul

Society, Important, Free

I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do.
Angelina Jolie

Used, Breath, Touched

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.
David Icke

Today, Yesterday, Ground

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Gore Vidal

Great, Democracy, Place

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
Aldous Huxley

Country, Office, Dignity

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.
Carroll O'Connor

Hated, Satire, Savvy

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
B. R. Ambedkar

Religion, Good, Social

Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.
Ambrose Bierce

Opinion, Another, Vote

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
Albert Schweitzer

End, Thought, Bring

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.
Emil Ludwig

Person, Two, Friends

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.
Sam Abell

Someone, Special, Moment

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.
Marianne Williamson

Love, Past, Present

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
Moliere

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
Elie Wiesel

God, Alone, Human

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
Honore de Balzac

Husband, Wife, Woman

Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.
Emma Goldman

Great, Him, Two

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