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  • William Ellery Channing He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Cabel Sasser Hiring has been a gradual process. We only hire someone when we really need them. It takes a while to get people up to speed. Our rule of thumb is to only hire when absolutely necessary.
    Sink or Swim, SXSW 2006
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Kingsley Amis I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer.
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • Barry Eisler I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Caitlin Rose If I'm singing something I don't like, it literally feels like stepping on nails.
    Caitlin Rose
    American country singer (1987 - )
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  • Bruce Oldfield If someone's got good, clean skin, with not too much make-up on, and good, clean hair that's bouncy, and the nails are clean and not overly done, then you can put anything on her and she's going to look good.
    Bruce Oldfield
    British fashion designer (1950 - )
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  • Beau Mirchoff Ladies, I'll let you in on a lil secret: guys don't notice your nails.
    Beau Mirchoff
    Canadian-American actor (1989 - )
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  • B. B. King Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won't do much because of my age.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Walter Savage Landor People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Callie Hernandez Since I started acting, I had to quit a lot of bad habits. I've tried to stop biting my nails, because people always look at your nails during auditions. Truth be told, I still have a 'cheat nail,' but I've been cheating less and less.
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  • John Burroughs Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • Dame Edith Sitwell Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
    Dame Edith Sitwell
    British poet (1887 - 1964)
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  • Eric Hoffer The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable.
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Thomas J. Peters We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.
    Thomas J. Peters
    American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer (1942 - )
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  • Barbara Mandrell We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • Denis Diderot Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Denis Diderot Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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