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Letter "H" » hammering
«To be a great anvil, you must take your hammering with pride, gusto, and style»
«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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«We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4am of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
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«What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy.»
«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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«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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«You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer»
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