Top 100 Quotes About Handy

#1. I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.

Edward Abbey

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#2. Me and my big mouth! I'd get rid of it, only it's such a handy place to keep my teeth.

Jimmy Durante

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#3. A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method.

Robert A. Heinlein

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#4. My hustle has often involved food, because, much like household pets or toddlers, I am food-motivated, which is a handy thing to know about me.

Amy Schumer

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#5. Like my brain cells. I find they come in handy when I ... oh, I don't know ... think.

Katie McGarry

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#6. A leader shapes and shares a vision, which gives point to the work of others.

Charles Handy

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#7. Learning is experience understood in tranquility.

Charles Handy

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#8. Having a personal philosophy is like having a pet marmoset, because it may be very attractive when you acquire it, but there may be situations when it will not come in handy at all.

Lemony Snicket

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#9. It could only be the employment of carriage whips, tongs, iron pokers, handsaws, stones, paperweights, or whatever might be handy to break the black body, the black family, the black community, the black nation. The bodies were pulverized into stock and marked with insurance. And

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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#10. looking about him at the cliffs and up at our signboard. "This is a handy cove," says he at length; "and a pleasant

Robert Louis Stevenson

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#11. Standing over her, I took the time to admire my handy work until I realized that I had just killed a potential meal.
"Damn it Bobbi," I snarled as I kicked her corpse. "Look what you made me do.

Isaiyan Morrison

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#12. The sobering thought is that individuals and societies are not, in the end, remembered for how they made their money, but for how they spent it.

Charles Handy

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#13. Bikers don't wear all that leather around simply for the fashion value or possible felony assaults. It's handy for keeping the highway from ripping the skin from your flesh should you wind up losing control of the bike and sliding along the asphalt for a while.

Jim Butcher

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#14. Money you know you need or want to spend in the next few years is savings. Money you keep handy for an emergency belongs in savings. Money you hope to use soon for a down payment on a house belongs in savings. And all savings belong in a low-risk bank savings account or money market account.

Suze Orman

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#15. The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.

Charles Handy

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#16. In a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property.

Charles Handy

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#17. It was a great joy for me to develop a strong female character in the spirit of an Icelandic woman. Icelandic women tend to be very strong and very independent, and I think that came in very handy.

Anita Briem

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#18. One graduate student told me, "When the Apocalypse comes, you want to know an archaeologist, because we know how to make fire, catch food, and create hill forts," and I promptly added her to my address book. Knows how to make hill forts - who can say when that will come in handy?

Marilyn Johnson

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#19. Should ever anything be missed - milk, coals, umbrellas, brandy - the cat's pitched into with a boot or anything that's handy.

Charles Stuart Calverley

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#20. I hate to see the evening sun go down.

William Christopher Handy

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#21. Klaus grinned. 'I'm sorry,' he said, 'but it was a very interesting book, and I'm so pleased that it's coming in handy.

Lemony Snicket

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#22. I'm a classic Church of England member, but part of its strength is the fact that it doesn't ask us to sign up to too much of a canon ... but I've always found the teachings of Jesus and the Bible quite useful as a sort of handy guide.

David Cameron

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#23. [After college] I was going to study at the Sorbon and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing with record companies.

Gloria Estefan

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#24. We should see schools as safe arenas for experimenting with life, for discovering our talents ... for taking responsibity for tasks and others people, for learning how to learn ... and for exploring our beliefs about life and society.

Charles Handy

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#25. We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.

Charles Handy

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#26. You are wise as well as short."
"I can also break bricks with my bare hands."
"That's a handy skill if you ever find yourself walled up in the basement of an abandoned house by a psychopath.

Nora Roberts

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#27. Competition is healthy ... but there is more to life than winning or we should nearly all be losers

Charles Handy

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#28. The handy thing about being a father is that the historic standard is so pitifully low.

Michael Chabon

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#29. Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty.

Deb Caletti

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#30. Beast Books will be longer than conventional long-form magazine articles but shorter than conventional nonfiction books. They will be published digitally and distributed on multiple platforms, and will soon thereafter be available as handy paperbacks.

Tina Brown

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#31. Hemingway had a handy dictum. You want to know if something is morally right? Listen to your stomach. If it sits like broken glass, then it's morally wrong.

Ken Bruen

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#32. Joph talked idly with them, all the while silently making a list of names. He'd share that list with Princess Leia soon. Might come in handy, someday. You never knew. -

Claudia Gray

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#33. The Prydain Companion is more than a quick reference or handy glossary, though it is all of that as well. Instructive, certainly. But, like any good companion, a pleasure to be with over a long period of time.

Lloyd Alexander

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#34. I spent some of my endless hours of leisure learning how to shoot a gun, which I thought might come in handy someday, if not in the war then back on the streets of New York.

Meg Rosoff

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#35. That might be nice, an extra pair of arms," Jace said. "Handy in a fight."
"Not if they're growing out of your ... " Dorothea paused and smiled, not without malice. "Neck.

Cassandra Clare

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#36. The book is warm. The book is handy. The book is handsome to the eye. The book occupies the shelf of the owner and is a reflection of him or her or, actually, me. The book is always there, to be reached for, to be thumbed and, too often I admit, to wonder about: Why did I buy this?

Richard Cohen

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#37. The market is a mechanism for sorting the efficient from the inefficient, it is not a substitute for responsibility.

Charles Handy

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#38. I grew up in East Germany, so we had to learn Russian in school ... everybody hated it. I never thought it would come in handy ... And being an actor, I've been able to use it quite a bit.

Tom Wlaschiha

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#39. The world by and large has to be reinvented.

Charles Handy

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#40. I would love to have a photographic memory. It would come in handy with the rants I'm given on Scrubs ... often on short notice!

John C. McGinley

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#41. (It's a good thing the gho is so handy, because all Bhutanese men are required to wear one during business hours. Bhutan is the only country in the world with a dress code for men.)

Eric Weiner

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#42. "And then we played Ping-Pong - "
"Not pool? I always assumed he was a billiards man - I mean, it's so handy the way he keeps a stick up his -

Claire LaZebnik

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#43. I am fairly rich. Money's very handy, let's face it.

Bob Hoskins

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#44. A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.

Robert A. Heinlein

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#45. For cripes sake, have you ever heard of 'Ready or not? Here I come'?"

Retro or not, cheesy is cheesy."

Sometimes what you learned from beer commercials comes in real handy.

Raven Hart

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#46. Once you get past funny, my other qualities are so below average. It's not like I'm handy.

Seth Meyers

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#47. Human mobile devices that may come in handy and can be used anywhere include: prayer, meditation, a good attitude, compassion, kindness, humor, laughter, patience, love and a smile. Customize to personal style and taste.

Jody Watley

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#48. An external attribution exists to make you feel less shitty. It's a handy tool, wherein you perceive anything positive that happens to you as a mistake, subjective, and/or never a result of your own goodness. Negative things, alternately, are the objective truth. And they're always your fault.

Melissa Broder

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#49. Purpose, pattern, and people, the three P's at the heart of life.

Charles Handy

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#50. Every writer, by the way he uses the language, reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacities, his bias ... Avoid the elaborate, the pretentious, the coy, and the cute. Do not be tempted by a twenty-dollar word when there is a ten-center handy, ready and able.

William Strunk Jr.

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#51. I buy smoked mackerel in a vain attempt at being healthy. I do actually really like it, and you don't have to cook it, which is handy.

Jo Brand

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#52. She'd never been big on church before, but as soon as we landed on cancer planet she went so over-the-top Jesucristo that I think she would have nailed herself to a cross if she'd had one handy.

Junot Diaz

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#53. I like 'nerves'! I like the word 'migraineur'. I like the word 'madness'. These are OK words. The 19th century had a very handy term: 'neurasthenic'. I think that's a very useful word. We all know what that means: it means extra-sensitive.

Siri Hustvedt

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#54. This idea was first coined by Charles Handy in his book The Age of Unreason

Jeff Goins

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#55. Stoicism sure comes in handy when they take away your underpants.

Piper Kerman

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#56. It would take a lifetime to know everything about her, and he just happened to have one handy and available.

Donna Kauffman

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#57. I didn't take up shorthand with any idea of becoming a professional at it. It merely appeared to me to be a good thing to know - something that might come in handy.

Charles M. Schwab

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#58. I now had two handy shafts of wood with jagged, pointy ends. I stepped between Inari and the nearest vampire and passed her one broken half of the rod. "Here," I said. "If you get the chance, make like Buffy.

Jim Butcher

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#59. This is what it is to learn programming. You get to know your useful tools, then you look around, and there are some handy new tools nearby and those tools show you the bottomless horror that was always right next to your bed.

Anonymous

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#60. I am very handy with my advice and then when anybody appears to be following it, I get frantic.

Flannery O'Connor

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#61. We - we spread out," he said. "Yes. We spread out. That's what we do."
They moved carefully through the bracken. The sergeant crouched behind a handy log, and said, "Right. Very good. You've got the general idea. Now let's spread out again, and this time we spread out separately.

Terry Pratchett

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#62. In the same way that humans have a "handy" intelligence, which we share with other primates, elephants may have a "trunky" one. There

Frans De Waal

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#63. Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself.

Charles Handy

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#64. Marriage and fatherhood heighten the disillusion that we all think we are born handy. We confidently believe that we can fix things around the house, as if it's part of the collective brain that was further enhanced by eighth-grade shop class.

Bob Newhart

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#65. Kidding yourself doesn't require that you have a sense of humor. But a sense of humor comes in handy for almost everything else.

Carrie Fisher

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#66. In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured out the peculiar form of mathematics and harmonies that was strange to all the world but me.

Jelly Roll Morton

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#67. The Reality of the Creator God of Christianity blatantly reveals itself in His majestic handy-work."

~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

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#68. Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races ... very handy.

Terry Pratchett

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#69. If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

Jack Handy

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#70. I studied how to use the clothes washer. The handy instructions on the lid helped; so did the box of suds. It instructed me to separate the whites from the coloreds. Laundry will be the last American institution to desegregate.

Huston Piner

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#71. I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.

Karl Ove Knausgaard

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#72. The [Five Second Rule] has many variations, including The Three Second Rule, The Seven Second Rule, and the extremely handy and versatile The However Long It Takes Me to Pick Up This Food Rule.

Neil Pasricha

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#73. Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them.

Martin Amis

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#74. When I travel, I always take my Winsor & Newton watercolor kit, which is the size of a pack of cigarettes when folded up. I bought my first one in the 1980s. It was handy to bring on trips, and I packed it into a leather pouch along with a couple of brushes, a pencil, an eraser and paper.

Susan Minot

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#75. Don't be too worthwhile. Always keep a few character defects handy. People love to talk about your frailties.If you must be noble, keep it to yourself

Edward Stone

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#76. If you say bullshit on things come in handy,
better revise it before others say otherwise.

Toba Beta

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#77. Don't even think it. Move all the way back. Both of you. On your stomachs, hands behind your heads. Now!"
Yeah, it's straight out of NCIS. I guess Mom's crush on that Gibbs guy came in handy.

Rysa Walker

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#78. There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.

Charles Handy

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#79. Where would we be without science? Sure, those boffins may have come up with occasionally handy items such as life-saving medicine, air travel and the internet, but science is also guilty of some terrible things, like eugenics and Jordan's breasts.

Ian O'Doherty

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#80. [A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
(The Record Lie)

A.A. Milne

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#81. Think you hate me because ... I'm someone you can hate. I'm here, I'm handy. But what you really hate is the world.

N.K. Jemisin

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#82. Change is only another word for growth, another synonym for learning.

Charles Handy

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#83. This is a handy cove," says he at length; "and a pleasant sittyated grog-shop. Much company, mate?" My father told him no, very little company, the more was the pity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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#84. Possibly this is some demonstration of how amazing the human brain is, adjusting and readjusting reality, plugging up potential crazy with a handy coping mechanism. As for myself, I think it demonstrates that the human brain is made of recycled monkey bits and pure, unadulterated stupid.

Rachel Sharp

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#85. He knew one thing for sure, though. Whatever happened, Matt would have some handy excuse. He'd make up some story or change an old one, find some dumb quote to explain it all.

Charlie Higson

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#86. Beauty is a very handy thing to have, especially for a woman who ain't handsome.

Josh Billings

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#87. The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or does not agree with you

Charles Ives

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#88. A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a good time. Borrowing is the only thing that seems handy all the time.

Will Rogers

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#89. I took out a whole fireplace and put in broken glass and installed a burner underneath, so it looks like fire on ice. I did that in my bedroom suite. I'm pretty handy.

Cory Monteith

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#90. Finn could break your vagina and be just handy enough to put it back together.

Christina Lauren

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#91. The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household.

William Christopher Handy

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#92. If my serenade of song and story should serve as a pillow for some composer's head, as yet perhaps unborn, to dream and build on our fond melodies in his tomorrow, I have not labored in vain.

William Christopher Handy

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#93. You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down.

William Christopher Handy

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#94. Just spend a few more months playing video games. That hand-eye coordination will come in handy when you get to third base.

John Green

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#95. If you ask my wife, the biggest fault is my inability around the house. She says the only thing handy about me is that I'm close by. And, I have a terrible memory. I'm bad at saying no. I often double-book. There are a lot of things.

Hugh Jackman

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#96. You never know when an old calendar might come in handy! Sure, it's not 1985 right now, but who knows what tomorrow will bring?

Homer

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#97. Keep a spur handy.

Meg Mims

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#98. Television is a dirty business. To survive in it you have to be part weasel, part python, and part wolf. To succeed in it, you have to be 99.9 percent great white shark. The capacity for barefaced lying also comes in handy, particularly if you are freelance.

Matt Dickinson

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#99. When God writes our names in the 'Lamb's Book of Life' He doesn't do it with an eraser handy. He does it for eternity.

R.C. Sproul

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#100. Anger is a handy term and words are tricky, as we know. What one man perceives as anger, another person - in my case the deliverer of material - is, "Don't you see it, don't you see how badly you're doing?" It's like shaking a child - which you're not supposed to do.

George Carlin

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