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«You balance the plate between the forefinger and three other fingers, which make a little platform, and with the forefinger and the thumb you grasp the glass and if you think that isn't hazardous, you haven't done it lately.»
Author: Bonnie Angelo
| Keywords:
fingers, forefinger, hazardous, lately, plate, plate glass, platform, platforms, The Glass, The Platform, thumb, thumbs
«Snip! Snap! Snip! They go so fast. / That both his thumbs are off at last.»
«Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.»
«Start with GOD-the first step in learning is bowing down to GOD; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.»
«You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.»
«Sonny sits by his window and thinks to himself, how it's strange that some rooms are like cages, Sonny's yearbook from high school is down from the shelf and he idoly thumbs through the pages. Some have died, some have fled from themselves, or struggled from here to get there. Sonny wonders beyond his interior walls, runs his hands through his thining brown hair.»
«The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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at present, church school, enables, masses, organize, rule of thumb, ruling, ruling class, schools, sway, The Masses, The Ruling Class, thumb, thumbs
«The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
African American
| Keywords:
African-American, African, balding, giant, shave, thumbs
«Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! 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.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Simplicity
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accounts, affairs, a million, dozen, half a dozen, half dozen, nail, nailed, simplicity, thousand million, thumb, thumbs, two dozen
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