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Letter "F" » finger
«[He] is salt rubbed in the wounds of the nation's conscience. He is a scream of pain. He is an accusing finger thrust in the face of white America. He is a fierce, brilliant light illuminating the unspeakable and the shameful.»
Author: Fern Marja Eckman
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Keywords:
accusing,
brilliant,
fierce,
finger,
illuminating,
rubbed,
salt,
scream,
shameful,
The Nation,
thrust,
unspeakable
«2-1-2. It's prestige. It's the Big Apple. And you hardly have to move your finger to dial it.»
«God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.»
«And we certainly don't have full conversations on cellphones. You know? Usually the reception is so bad, but it's only bad on your side. The person talking to you has no clue...They're just rambling on and on. You've got your finger jammed in your ear, you're shushing people on the streets. You're ducked behind a dumpster so you can hear about your friend's new hair cut. 'What about the bangs are they shorter?!?...Are the bangs shorter?!?...THE BAAANGS!!!»
Author: Ellen DeGeneres
(
Actress,
Comedian)
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Keywords:
bad person,
banged,
banging,
bangs,
bang out,
clue,
clues,
clue in,
conversations,
cut short,
ducked,
Dumpster,
ear,
finger,
hair,
hair cut,
jammed,
jams,
On and On,
ramble,
ramble on,
rambling,
reception,
receptions,
shorter,
Short Cuts,
talking to,
The Streets
«A bad knife cuts one's finger instead of the stick»
«And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself: / And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail: / And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not: / And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.»
Author: Bible
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Keywords:
Aaron,
altar,
atonement,
beaten,
bring off,
bullock,
censer,
censers,
cloud,
cover,
eastward,
finger,
full house,
House of Lords,
incense,
incensed,
kill off,
mercy seat,
offering,
seat,
Sin offering,
sprinkle,
sprinkles,
sprinkling,
take of,
testimony,
the fire
«Clean your finger before you point at my spots»
«Do not show your wounded finger, for everything will knock up against it.»
«Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(
Novelist,
Scholar)
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About:
Failure
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Keywords:
achievement,
failures,
finger,
fingered,
fingering,
on the road,
posted,
posting,
posts,
road
«I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.»
Author: James Madison
(
President)
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About:
Benevolence,
Charity,
Government,
Taxation
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Keywords:
article,
benevolence,
Congress of,
constituent,
constituents,
expend,
expended,
expending,
expends,
finger,
on that,
undertake