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Letter "H" » hammering
«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.»
«Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
(Vice President)
| Keywords:
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«A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.»
Author: Horace Mann
| About:
Desire,
Learning,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
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«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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«Let us never demonize or give up on those who disagree with us. We don't want to become like the right-wing talk-show hosts, hammering our adversaries into cartoon characters and denying their humanity.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
| 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.»
«The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
| Keywords:
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«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)
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