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• 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

  Wisdom, Blood, Teeth

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• H. L. Mencken famously said that 'every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.' By now, however, I am no longer ashamed, because I do not identify with the government under which I live. Rather, I view it as a criminal organization that without provocation has chosen to make war on my just rights-not only mine, of course, but everyone's. Although this vile enterprise is my problem, because it robs and bullies me relentlessly and without mercy, it is not my responsibility: the nail is not the hammer.

  Robert Higgs

  War, Responsibility, Men

  Robert Higgs (2007). “Neither Liberty Nor Safety: Fear, Ideology, and the Growth of Government”, Independent Inst

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• Managers who master the hammer and expect all problems to behave like nails find organizational life confusing and frustrating.

  Lee Bolman

  Confusing, Excellence, Hammers

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• Oh, that dog! Ever hear of a German Shepherd that bites its nails? Barks with a lisp? You say, "Attack!" And he has one. All he does is piddle. He's nothing but a fur-covered kidney that barks.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Dog, Shepherds

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• If you are anything like me you'll have to fight tooth-and-nail to stay in the game (evangelism). Because although the home runs have been invigorating, my batting average over the years is abysmally low.

  Bill Hybels

  Running, Home, Fighting

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• Home is where the heart is, until we get a chance to bury it. Home is where the heart pulled the nails out of its feet, and fled.

  Joey Comeau

  Home, Heart, Feet

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• During production, I didn't ever have one minute off to go file my nails, or do anything which girls quite like to do some of the time. I couldn't do anything. I turned into a zombie.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Girl, Zombie, Minutes

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• The secret of this sport is, while you're the nail, hang in there, let them hit you, until the day you become the hammer, then you smash them back!

  Renzo Gracie

  Sports, Mma, Secret

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• I still bite my nails.

  Jesse McCartney

  Stills, Bites

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• This isn't a mob, won't need to change the names. Everyone around you has murdered someone, something sacred. There isn't one nail without dirt under it. There isn't any white cotton panties that aren't soaked and stained red. It's better to push something when it's slipping, than to risk being dragged down.

  Marilyn Manson

  Names, White, Risk

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• The more propaganda . . . conservatives spread for capitalist economics while at the same time preaching collectivism morally and philosophically , the more nails they’ll drive into capitalism’s coffin.

  Ayn Rand

  Coffins, Economics, Propaganda

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.281, Penguin

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• No... souls are just counters for churches to collect, all the same value, like nails. No, what makes man man is mind; it's not a thing, it's a quality, and minds aren't all the same value; they're better or worse, and the better they are, the more they mean.

  John Wyndham

  Mean, Men, Soul

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• When I do fall in love, I'll go to the ends of the earth for that person. I'd lay down on a carpet of nails for the person I love.

  Peter Andre

  Falling In Love, Earth, Ends

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• Negative thoughts are the nails that build a prison of failure.

  Jon Gordon

  Motivational, Negative, Prison

  Jon Gordon (2014). “The Carpenter: A Story About the Greatest Success Strategies of All”, p.36, John Wiley & Sons

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• The men who have gotten women pregnant need to be accountable if we are. If we are going to jail, the men are coming too. Religious rhetoric will bite its own ass trying to nail only women in a two-person process.

  Neko Case

  Religious, Men, Two

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• I’ve heard it said that every day you need half an hour of quiet time for yourself, or your Self, unless you’re incredibly busy and stressed, in which case you need an hour. I promise you, it is there. Fight tooth and nail to find time, to make it. It is our true wealth, this moment, this hour, this day.

  Anne Lamott

  Fighting, Self, Promise

  "Borrowing Time for Bliss" by Christine Carter, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2010.

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• Nails are the period at the end of the sentence. They complete the look

  Prabal Gurung

  Looks, Ends, Periods

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• Your work isn't a high stakes, nail-biting professional challenge. It's a form of play. Lighten up and have fun with it.

  Sol LeWitt

  Fun, Play, Challenges

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• We know what our policy is regarding the territory of Israel, Kosovo, Bosnia, Macedonia and even Nagorno-Karabakh. What is our policy regarding the territory of the United States? No nation in history has ever been as willing to accommodate those who would dismember it as has the United States of America. Trying to get a straight pro-U. S. comment out of a U.S. elected official is like trying to nail a custard pie to the side of a barn.

  Barry Farber

  Israel, Pie, America

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• The hotel I'm in has a lovely closet. A nail.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Lovely

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• when someone you love dies, he becomes your enemy; he fights you tooth and nail from a hidden position; he successfully raids what small provisions you have gathered to keep yourself going.

  Rosalyn Drexler

  Grief, Fighting, Enemy

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• Ingratitude is a nail which, driven into the tree of courtesy, causes it to wither; it is a broken channel, by which the foundations of the affections are undermined; and a lump of soot, which, falling into the dish of friendship, destroys its scent and flavor.

  Giambattista Basile

  Fall, Broken, Tree

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• Take the folks at Coca-Cola. For many years, they were content to sit back and make the same old carbonated beverage. It was a good beverage, no question about it; generations of people had grown up drinking it and doing the experiment in sixth grade where you put a nail into a glass of Coke and after a couple of days the nail dissolves and the teacher says: Imagine what it does to your TEETH! So Coca-Cola was solidly entrenched in the market, and the management saw no need to improve.

  Dave Barry

  Teacher, Couple, Humorous

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• People criticize a woman for everything - like, I get criticized for how my hair looks when I go grocery shopping or the fact that I don’t wear makeup when I get my nails done.

  Mila Kunis

  Makeup, Hair, Shopping

  Interview with James Franco, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2012.

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• Too much of nothing can turn a man into a liar. It can cause one man to sleep on nails and another to eat fire.

  Bob Dylan

  Liars, Sleep, Men

  Bob Dylan (2016). “The Lyrics: 1961-2012”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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