#handed

Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me. ↗

— Judith Guest

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How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity. ↗

— Olympia Brown

#ancient #christ #christianity #down #errors

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#handed #me #nothing #ordeal #these

I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, "What are you?" ↗

— Grace Hopper

#i #immigration #looked #me #officer

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. ↗

— Alice Walker

#could #creative #flower #grandmothers #handed

If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop artists, they produced everything themselves. Even people like Robert De Niro are getting into production. Again, it's art vs. marketing. Not everyone can take the risk. You have to break a few eggs to make a good omelet. ↗

— Michael Winslow

#art #artists #blessing #break #curse

Congress had the opportunity to extend tax relief to working families without increasing the deficit. Instead, we were handed a bill that favors the wealthy and eliminates deductions that benefit the middle class. ↗

— Rick Larsen

#bill #class #congress #deductions #deficit

After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor. ↗

— John Huston

#crime #endeavor #form #human #left-handed

As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it. ↗

— Ann Romney

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My manager said it would more effective against left-handed hitters. It seemed to me that was impossible to do without the high leg kick, which I started that day. ↗

— Juan Marichal

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