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• You choose to go voluntarily into the fire. The blaze might well destroy you. But if you survive, every blow of the hammer will serve to shape your being. Every drop of water wrung from you will temper and strengthen your soul.

  Margaret Weis

  Blow, Fire, Water

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• The home was a school. Farm and cabin households, though bookless save for the Family Bible and The Sacred Harp, taught the girls to spin, weave, quilt, cook, sew, and mind their manners; the boys to wield gun, ax, hammer and saw, to ride, plow, sow and reap, and to be men. Nobody need ever be bored. Amusement did not have to be bought.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Girl, Quilts, War

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• O, what I owe to the file, the hammer, and the furnace of the Lord Jesus! I know that he is no idle husbandman - he purposes a crop.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Jesus, Suffering, Purpose

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• When you are a hammer, all of your problems will look like nails to you.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Nails, Looks, Problem

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• I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into peoples minds better than we Liberals.

  Charles Trevelyan

  Party, Thinking, Evil

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• What can a sculptor do without the chisel and the hammer? And what can an impostor politician do without the ignorants and the uneducated?

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Politician, Sculptors, Chisels

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• The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Anvils, Not Afraid

  Charles Spurgeon (2012). “John Ploughman's Talks”, p.77, Whitaker House

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• In general, therefore, color is a means of exerting a direct influence upon the soul. Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many strings. The artist is the hand that purposefully sets the soul vibrating by means of this or that key.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Mean, Eye, Artist

  Wassily Kandinsky, Kenneth Clement Lindsay, Peter Vergo (1994). “Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art”

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• Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.

  Charles Dickens

  Crush, Yield, Humanity

  Charles Dickens, General Press (2016). “A Tale of Two Cities: A Story of the French Revolution”, p.339, GENERAL PRESS

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• So it has come, the day of testing. Without warning, without fanfare, it is here, and he is in the middle of it. In his chest his heart hammers so hard that it too, in its dumb way, must know. How will they stand up to the testing, he and his heart?

  J. M. Coetzee

  Heart, Dumb, Warning

  J. M. Coetzee (1999). “Disgrâce”, Random House (UK)

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• I've become this voice for a millennial generation of feminism, which is awesome, but at the same time it's complicated. We all know I'm a girl, I'm a woman, but it's difficult to figure out how to talk about it and express how important it is without beating it with a hammer and having it be, "So you're a girl in music! So you're a girl in music!" Yes, I'm a girl in music - can we just talk about something else?

  Bethany Cosentino

  Girl, Voice, Feminism

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Pirate Dreams Needles and pins, Needles and pins, Sew me a sail to catch me the wind. Sew me a sail strong as the gale, Carpenter, bring out your hammers and nails. Hammers and nails, hammers and nails, Build me a boat to go chasing the whales. Chasing the whales, sailing the blue Find me a captain and sign me a crew. Captain and crew, captain and crew, Take me, oh take me to anywhere new.

  Shel Silverstein

  Dream, Strong, Blue

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• It's not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way he moved, the way he held a hammer, rowed a boat, built a fire. I, on the other hand, was like a brain in a box, a beating heart in a coal scuttle.

  Meg Rosoff

  Heart, Fire, Hands

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• If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. - Abraham Maslow

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Nails, Tools, Looks

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• The Divine was expansive, but religion was reductive. Religion attempted to reduce the Divine to a knowable quantity with which mortals might efficiently deal, to pigeonhole it once and for all so that we never had to reevaluate it. With hammers of cant and spikes of dogma, we crucified and crucified again, trying to nail to our stationary altars the migratory light of the world.

  Tom Robbins

  Light, Trying, Nails

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.479, Bantam

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• Knot the tie and go to work, unknot the tie and go to sleep. I sleep. I dream. I wake. I sing. I get out the hammer and start knocking in the wooden pegs that affix the meaning to the landscape, the inner life to the body, the names to the things. I float too much to wander, like you, in the real world. I envy it but that’s the dealio—you’re a train and I’m a trainstation and when I try to guess your trajectory I end up telling my own story.

  Richard Siken

  Dream, Real, Sleep

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• Hammer and tongs! I am so torn between rage and joy, that if I do not burst, it will be a marvel!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Joy, Rage, Torn

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.544, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A furious Peeta hammers Haymitch with the atrocity he could become party to, but I can feel Haymitch watching me. This is the moment, then. When we find out exactly just how alike we are, and how much he truly understands me. "I'm with the Mockingjay," he says.

  Suzanne Collins

  Party, Atrocities, Moments

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.370, Scholastic Inc.

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• It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the surround-sound speakers while animals gnaw on your neck and diseased bill collectors hammer on your doors with golf clubs.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Golf, Animal, Surround Sound

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.101, Pan Macmillan

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• Man is born to trouble. Man is born for trouble. Man is born to battle trouble. Man is born for the fight, to be forged and molded--under torch and hammer and chisel--into a sharper, finer, stronger image of God.

  N.D. Wilson

  Fighting, Men, Battle

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent”, p.69, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It's well known that the greatest defence against an intruder is the sound of a gun hammer being pulled back.

  Vince Vaughn

  Gun, Sound, Defense

  "True Detective's Vince Vaughn on gun control, Edward Snowden and comedy". Interview with Jonathan Heaf, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. June 1, 2015.

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• Man is a long time coming. Man will yet win. Brother may yet line up with brother: This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.There are men who can't be bought.

  Carl Sandburg

  Brother, Winning, Men

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Harvest Poems: 1910-1960”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

  George Herbert

  Strikes, Poor Richard, Stills

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.332

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• If my wheel comes off and I hit the fence real hard, I get to whack every damn one of you with a hammer.

  Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

  Real, Wheels, Fence

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• Similar (of course, far from identical) irritations in similar conditions call out similar reflexes; the more powerful the irritation, the sooner it overcomes personal peculiarities. To a tickle, people react differently, but to a red-hot iron, alike. As a steam-hammer converts a sphere and a cube alike into sheet metal, so under the blow of too great and inexorable events resistances are smashed and the boundaries of "individuality" lost.

  Leon Trotsky

  Powerful, Blow, Iron

  Leon Trotsky, Max Eastman (2008). “History of the Russian Revolution”, p.70, Haymarket Books

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