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15 quotesSome men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
Men
John Burroughs
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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.
Death and Dying
Johnny Carson
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He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.
Education
William Ellery Channing
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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
Maxim
Denis Diderot
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Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.
Justice
Denis Diderot
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A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
Habit
Desiderius Erasmus
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Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.
Possessions
Collis P. Huntingdon
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The nail that sticks up will be hammered down.
Individuality
Japanese Proverb
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People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
Goals
Walter Savage Landor
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Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
Ambition
William Lilly
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If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Perspective
Abraham H. Maslow
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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
Adaptability
Abraham H. Maslow
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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Iris Murdoch
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A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
Association
Sir Walter Scott
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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
Perseverance
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun