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«Whenever the invisible hand isn't operating the iron fist is»

Author: Bart Kosko | Keywords: fist, fists, hand over fist, invisible hand, Iron Hand, operating

«The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority... it is the one guaranty of human freedom to the American people.»

Author: Frank I. Cobb | Keywords: American people, Bill of Rights, clause, constituted, fist, FISTED, fists, guaranty, rebel, reeking, reeks, sedition, shakes, The Bill

«You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.»

Author: Indira Gandhi (Politician, Prime Minister) | Keywords: clench, clenched, clenched fist, clenching, fist, FISTED, fists, hand over fist, shake, shake hands, shake the hand

«Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.»

Author: Marshall McLuhan (Educator, Social Reformer, Writer) | About: Tyranny | Keywords: club, disguised, fist, FISTED, fists, flocks, market, researcher, researchers, shepherds, tyrant, utilities, utility

«the fact that nobody liked me at school began to fade out of my mind like blue magic marker reminders scrawled on the back of a greasy fist.»

Author: Marilyn Manson | Keywords: began, blue, fade, fade out, fist, FISTED, fists, greasiest, greasy, liked, marker, markers, reminders, scrawl, scrawled, scrawls

«Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.»

Author: Og Mandino (Essayist, Psychologist) | Keywords: boast, conceit, conceits, correct, fist, FISTED, fists, guard, halt, halted, halting, halts, hole, importance, on guard, pail, pails, Pride and, remaining, remove, remove it, speak for, tempted, The Hole, traps, watering hole, with conceit

«The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.»

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer) | Keywords: fist, FISTED, fists, nose, swing, Swing On, swing over, swung, The Swing

«My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.»

Author: Bette Davis | About: Passion | Keywords: aggression, aggressions, considered, fingers, fist, FISTED, fists, gathered

«Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, and four times he who gets his fist in fust»

Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | Keywords: armed, fist, FISTED, fists, four times, He Who Gets, quarrel, thrice

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