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«The parrot holds its food for prim consumption as daintily as any debutante, [with] a predilection for pot roast, hashed-brown potatoes, duck skin, butter, hoisin sauce, sesame seed oil, bananas and human thumb.»
Author: Alexander Theroux
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«You balance the plate between the forefinger and three other fingers, which make a little platform, and with the forefinger and the thumb you grasp the glass and if you think that isn't hazardous, you haven't done it lately.»
Author: Bonnie Angelo
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fingers, forefinger, hazardous, lately, plate, plate glass, platform, platforms, The Glass, The Platform, thumb, thumbs
«They call it easing the Spring: it is perfectly easy If you have any strength in your thumb: like the bolt, And the breech, and the cocking-piece, and the point of balance, Which in our case we have not got; and the almond-blossom Silent in all of th»
«Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.»
«Start with GOD-the first step in learning is bowing down to GOD; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.»
«You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.»
«The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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«Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Simplicity
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«She has a green thumb»
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