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«If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs»
Author: Arthur Baer | Keywords: thumbs
«Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!»
«At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.»
«It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.»
«?A rule of thumb for a warrior is that he makes his decisions so carefully that nothing that may happen as a result of them can surprise him, much less drain his power.?»
«For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!»
«And Adonibezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.»
«But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Adonibezek, great toe, thumbs
«And he brought Aaron's sons, and Moses put of the blood upon the tip of their right ear, and upon the thumbs of their right hands, and upon the great toes of their right feet: and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: great toe, sprinkled, thumbs, tip, toes
«By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.»

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