Isaac Newton
Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer
"In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence."
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Thumbs
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Otto von Bismarck
Statesman, Chancellor
"He who has his thumb on the purse has the power."
Steven Wilson
Musician
"You've got a lot pulling at your time already - which may be the best reason to start cultivating your green thumb."
Bill Hicks
Comedian, Writer
"Folks, it's time to evolve. That's why we're troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything's failing? It's because, um - they're no longer relevant. We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?"
Wilbur Smith
Author
"Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds."
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"If you want to be rich the rule of thumb is to teach others how to be rich."
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"By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes."
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"Anyone living in Los Angeles who has opposable thumbs is required to write a screenplay."
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"As a rule of thumb I say, if Socrates, Jesus and Tolstoy wouldn't do it, don't."
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"Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. ~from the poem "Digging"
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"The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love."
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"Thumbs grow into my throat. I wear slaps like a spot of rouge."
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"Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?"
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"Ive always had this rule of thumb: If you have fun making it, then someone will have fun watching it."
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"Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program."
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"Never trust a man who carries a handkerchief, I always say. One of many prejudicial rules of thumb."
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"We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?"
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"A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors."
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"There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C...(before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy.... Well, this one left them all behind."
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"Also, as a rule of thumb, if you find yourself defending your inalienable right to make someone else feel like garbage, you're on the wrong side of the argument."
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"But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things."
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"There's something about being in the country that makes you stick out like a sore thumb ? you're an anomaly. But in London there's always someone wilder and woollier."
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"Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull down the balance to his own predilection, that is immorality."
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"As a rule of thumb, if the government wants you to know it, it probably isn't true."
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"What is there so ponderous in evil, that a thumb's bigness of it should outweigh the mass of things not evil, which were heaped into the other scale!"
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