India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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Press conference, New Delhi (October 19, 1971), quoted in "Indian and Pakistani Armies Confront Each Other Along Borders" by Sydney H. Schanberg, The New York Times (October 20, 1971), page 6CIndira Gandhi
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"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist."
George V of the United Kingdom
“If a fist can hold a sword, and a fist can clench a pen, but the points of both are missed, by dull, tarnished pride of men. We must open up our hands, raise our palms up high to see, the mazes of our unique selves, end with similarity.”
Dawud Wharnsby
[with a fist-shake] Take that, ____.
Craig Ferguson
I've always been rather very one-sided about the science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it. I didn't have time to learn, and I didn't have much patience for what's called the humanities; even though in the university there were humanities that you had to take, I tried my best to avoid somehow to learn anything and to work on it. It's only afterwards [sic] when I've gotten older and more relaxed that I've spread out a little bit--I've learned to draw, and I read a little bit, but I'm really still a very one-sided person and don't know a great deal. I have a limited intelligence and I've used it in a particular direction.
Richard Feynman
We hold each other’s lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.
Lloyd Alexander
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Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma)
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