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Letter "H" » hammered
«If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
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«A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.»
«Do as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for yourself and ask nothing of others; and grab all the fun you can. Don't give much thought to yesterday, don't worry about tomorrow, live in the moment, and trust that your existence has meaning even when the world seems to be all blind chance and chaos. When life lands a hammer blow in your face, do your best to respond to the hammer as if it had been a cream pie. Sometimes black humor is the only kind we can summon, but even dark laughter can sustain.»
Author: Dean Koontz
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«In a party tent poised somewhere between romance and avarice, an auctioneer hammered out the sale of the first of the costly baubles that were scattered as love tokens across the lives of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.»
Author: Francis X. Clines
| Keywords:
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«Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
(Vice President)
| Keywords:
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«The nail that sticks up gets hammered down»
«Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
| About:
Genius
| Keywords:
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«I have a hammer! I can put things together! I can knock things apart! I can alter my environment at will and make an incredible din all the while! Ah, it's great to be male!»
Author: Bill Watterson
(Author)
| Keywords:
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«In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it.»
«Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
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