"Here is your cross, Your nails and your hill; And here is your love, That lists where it will"
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"Let us be peaceable as near as we can: let us relent of our own right: let us not strive for these worldly goods, honour and reputation: let us bear all wrongs and outrages, rather than be moved to any debate through our own fault. But in the meanwhile, let us fight for God's truth with tooth and nail."
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"To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail."
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"To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
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"Managers who master the hammer and expect all problems to behave like nails find organizational life confusing and frustrating."
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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."
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"Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts."
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"I don't do yoga. I bite the hella outta my nails. I smoke, I eat all the wrong food, I don't exercise."
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"Use crazy glue and nails to turn a rocking chair into just a chair that looks like a rocking chair."
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"Not once more will/I be found with beings/who swallowed the rail of life//And one day I found myself with beings/who swallowed the nail of life/-as soon as I lost my matrix mamma,//and the being twisted under him,/and god poured me back to her/(the motherfucker)."
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"The thief, as will become apparent, was a special type of thief. This thief was an artist of theft. Other thieves merely stole everything that was not nailed down, but this thief stole the nails as well."
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"No one likes getting their nails done more than I do."
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"In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails."
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"Vicksburg is the nail head that holds the South’s two halves together."
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"Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all."
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"I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace."
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"Lets nail it down, lets get it right."
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"There’s part of me that loves words. But sometimes it feels like you’re trying to drive nails with your shoe."
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"A strange thing — nails will hold a building together, but there's nothing better for taking a man apart."
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"Be critical of but not brutal with your writing. If something isn't essential, get rid of it. Remember that good dialogue can serve a whole passel of purposes in your novel, and to overlook one of them is to overlook one of the tools of the craft. Like hitting a nail with a screwdriver, if you know what I mean."
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