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Letter "H" » hammer in
«If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.»
Author: Abraham Maslow
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Philosopher,
Psychologist)
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Keywords:
hammer,
hammered,
hammering,
hammers,
hammer in,
nail,
nailed,
nailing,
tend,
The Nails,
tool
«Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
(
Vice President)
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Keywords:
anvil,
anvils,
debate,
debated,
debating,
discussion,
dissent,
dissenting,
dissents,
hammered,
hammering,
hammers,
hammer in,
the discussion
«When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.»
Author: Jacob Riis
(
Photographer,
Reporter)
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Keywords:
a hundred,
a hundred times,
blow,
Blown Away,
crack,
going away,
gone,
hammered,
hammering,
hammers,
hammer in,
hundred-and-first,
hundred,
I go,
look at,
much as,
Nothing yet,
perhaps,
rock,
seems,
showing,
split,
splits,
splitting,
split up,
stonecutter
«To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.»
«Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.»
«I have a hammer! I can put things together! I can knock things apart! I can alter my environment at will and make an incredible din all the while! Ah, it's great to be male!»
Author: Bill Watterson
(
Author)
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Keywords:
alter,
apart,
at will,
din,
environment,
Environments,
hammer,
hammered,
hammering,
hammers,
hammer in,
incredible,
knock,
knocked out,
knock on,
knock out,
knock up
«What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.»
Author: Dave Barry
(
Humorist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
assume,
asteroid,
big,
common,
frog,
hammer,
hammered,
hammering,
hammers,
hammer in,
happens,
hits,
involving,
judging,
laboratories,
laboratory,
pretty,
realistic,
simulation,
simulations,
sledge,
The Frogs
«In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
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Keywords:
bent,
bents,
blunt,
blunted,
blunting,
blunts,
dull,
dulled,
grindstone,
hammer,
hammered,
hammering,
hammers,
hammer in,
instrument,
seeing
«You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(
Critic,
Essayist,
Playwright)
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Keywords:
attacking,
guard,
hammered,
hammering,
hammers,
hammer in,
Hold Your,
on guard,
standing,
stand guard
«Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(
Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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Keywords:
blood,
Blood and,
body,
boned,
bones,
builder,
flesh,
fleshed,
Flesh and Blood,
get off,
hammered,
hammering,
hammers,
hammer in,
instead,
in style,
material,
material body,
My Style,
off,
our own,
painters,
purely,
sculptors,
style,
styled,
temple,
Temple in,
The God,
worships