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• The exchange of words is a lot like a virtual handshake. Is the writer's grasp of the language strong and bold? Are the words gripping? Direct? Inventive? Sincere?

  Allison Mackie

  Strong, Language, Sincere

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• I'm glad I don't play anymore. I could never learn all those handshakes.

  Phil Rizzuto

  Baseball, Funny Inspirational, Play

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• Don't underestimate the power of the nonverbal. You'd be amazed how many people come in for interviews with poor posture, weak handshakes, and blank stares.

  Nicole Williams

  People, Interviews, Underestimate

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Music is a handshake where I, as a songwriter, am only part of the equation. I love that, the fact that you can make the song your own.

  Jon Foreman

  Song, Facts, Music Is

  Source: www.scenepointblank.com

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• Then Day reaches out and touches my hand with his. He encloses it in a handshake. And just like that, I am linked with him again, I feel the pulse of our bond and his- tory and love through our hands, like a wave of magic, the return of a long-lost friend. Of something meant to be. The feeling brings tears to my eyes. Perhaps we can take a step forward together. “Hi,” he says. “I’m Daniel.” “Hi,” I reply. “I’m June.

  Marie Lu

  Eye, June, Hands

  Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.230, Penguin

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• Some scientists want to replace the handshake with the fist bump. Others want to replace the fist bump with the 'tush push.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Bumps, Fists, Want

  Twitter post from Sep 09, 2014

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• To Jack, there was nothing more powerful than a promise made over a handshake. He would have died ー literally chosen death ー before breaking his word.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Powerful, Promise, Made

  Lisa Kleypas (2008). “Blue-Eyed Devil: A Novel”, p.99, Macmillan

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• I'd rather the handshake for somebody that I can trust than a contract. Because you can read the bloody contract - perhaps if you made a little bit of a mistake writing it - in a way to suit you.

  Bernie Ecclestone

  Mistake, Writing, Suits You

  Source: www.topgear.com

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• You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.

  Magic Johnson

  Hug, Meals, Aids Day

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. Style and personality are irrelevant. They can be formal or casual. They can be tall or short or fat or thin. They can obey the rules or break them. But they need to contain a charge. A live current, which shocks and illuminates.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Book, Personality, Style

  "My Life’s Sentences" by Jhumpa Lahiri, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 17, 2012.

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• What most Americans don't realize is there is an unholy alliance. They come together. There's a secret handshake. We spend more money on everything. And we are not stronger nation if we go further into debt. We are not projecting power from bankruptcy court.

  Rand Paul

  Secret, Together, Stronger

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I could be walking down the street one minute and get a handshake and then get spat on the next. I'm never sure whether to wear gloves or a helmet.

  Chris Martin

  Gloves, Next, Minutes

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• The old water heater in my dressing room was working, but it was kind of tired. It gave off about as much warmth as an agent's handshake.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Tired, Water

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• Once he had taken hold, he did not let go. It was not a handshake, it was a possession.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Letting Go, Taken, Possession

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• She turned to Skulduggery and held out her arms. “Come here, you.” He tilted his head. “My hugs are for special occasions only.” “Hug me.” “I prefer the old tradition.” “Hug.” “Would a handshake do?” “Hug.” “A pat on the back?” She stepped forward and wrapped her arms round him. “Hug,” she said. He sighed, and his hands settled on her shoulders. The others were warm and their embraces strong – with Skulduggery the hug was cold, and there were areas on his jacket that gave way beneath her fingers, and she could feel the emptiness within. She didn’t mind.

  Derek Landy

  Strong, Hands, Hug

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• In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.

  Alan Lightman

  Time, Kissing, Circles

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.11, Vintage

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• More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

  Barbara Jordan

  Inspirational, Future, Government

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• But there is only one person I blame for getting shafted, and that's myself. I went into the deal which I thought would secure the future of Orange Aids with culpable impetuosity. I had been used to doing business on a handshake and my work of honour, and I made the error of actually believing what the men in the pin-striped suits told me.

  Trevor Baylis

  Business, Believe, Men

  "Two Speed World: The Impact of Explosive and Gradual Change". Book by Terry Lloyd, 2010.

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• Yo, play me with a handshake. Say "What's up, L.L.? Good Luck." That's all. That's all I want. I don't want you to kiss my feet. That ain't necessary. Just give me respect.

  LL Cool J

  Good Luck, Kissing, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's a wonderful author named Can Themba, who said that Africa extends a fraternal handshake to Shakespeare. That William Shakespeare would have recognized Elizabethan England more readily in Africa today than in England today.

  Gregory Doran

  Today, Wonderful

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Let us then remember the dead-and all wars-gratefully. And let us hope that because of them we may become a touch better, a thimbleful wiser, and a handshake more tolerant of this changing world they did not live to see.

  Arthur Hailey

  War, World, May

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• But I'm not afraid of the skeletons in Julie's closet. I look forward to meeting the rest of them, looking them hard in the eye, giving them firm, bone-crunching handshakes.

  Isaac Marion

  Eye, Skeletons, Giving

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• I'll take a quiet life, A handshake of carbon monoxide. No alarms and no surprises...

  Thom Yorke

  Alarms, Quiet, Surprise

  "Song: No Surprises (OK Computer)". January 12, 1998.

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• You know, sometimes I'll go to an 8th-grade graduation and there's all that pomp and circumstance and gowns and flowers. And I think to myself, it's just 8th grade ... An 8th-grade education doesn't cut it today. Let's give them a handshake and tell them to get their butts back in the library!

  Barack Obama

  Flower, Cutting, Thinking

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• His embarassment would have pleased me, but once he recovered, there would be that awkward period that sometimes culminates in a handshake. I didn't want to touch these people's hands or see things from their point of view, I just wanted to continue hating them. So I kept my mouth shut and stared off into space.

  David Sedaris

  Hate, Views, Hands

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