"I am what I eat. And I am this especially when I bite my nails."
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"Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten."
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"I can't help to spit nails when just thinking about Trade Unions"
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"Now hoppin'-john was F. Jasmine's very favorite food. She had always warned them to wave a plate of rice and peas before her nose when she was in her coffin, to make certain there was no mistake; for if a breath of life was left in her, she would sit up and eat, but if she smelled the hopping-john, and did not stir, then they could just nail down the coffin and be certain she was truly dead."
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"Now you can't even carry a nail clipper on a plane. Are they afraid you're going to go..."All right! Give me the plane or the b*tch loses her cuticle." ?"
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"When your spinal cord freezes up, you're vulnerable to everything. But he [Chrestopher Reese] was tough as nails. And he kept a great, kind of dark sense of humor about it, but also was able to accomplish amazing things."
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"If you've got cool nails, you wake up and you're like, 'Oh, I'm happy now.'"
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"What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings."
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"If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail."
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"There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. It tells you to do the straight thing and it does not seem to care how painful, or dangerous, or difficult it is to do."
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"There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft."
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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."
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"When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail."
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"Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount, But nothing really matters much it's doom alone that counts."
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"The nails from a suicide's coffin, and the skull of the parricide, were of course no trouble; for Vesquit never traveled without these household requisites."
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"I have an odd fetish with nails. I was always doing beauty blogs about nails, and it would be on Fridays called Fridays Fingertip Fetish. It became so popular that a nail polish company approached me, and Fingertip Fetish was born."
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"Unless you catch ideas on the wing and nail them down, you will soon cease to have any."
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"Just because you've got a mind like a hammer doesn't mean you have to treat everyone else like a nail"
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"Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever."
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"The Divine was expansive, but religion was reductive. Religion attempted to reduce the Divine to a knowable quantity with which mortals might efficiently deal, to pigeonhole it once and for all so that we never had to reevaluate it. With hammers of cant and spikes of dogma, we crucified and crucified again, trying to nail to our stationary altars the migratory light of the world."
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