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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.
Isaac Newton
Without any other substantiation, the mere hint of divinity would compel me to acknowledge its presence.
2.
What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.
Jeffrey Donovan
3.
Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.
Steven Pressfield
4.
Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
Solomon
5.
No matter where you are in the world the moon is never bigger than your thumb.
John Dear
6.
As you deal with thumb-crossings, or fingerings for the F-sharp-minor scale, or chromatic scales in double thirds, it is hard to accept that these will eventually allow you to probe eternity in the final movement of Beethoven's last sonata. Imagine that you are scrubbing the grout in your bathroom and are told that removing every last particle of mildew will somehow enable you to deliver the Gettysburg Address.
Jeremy Denk
7.
If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can't get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different.
Bruce Schneier
9.
If you demand money from someone in exchange for your silence, it's called 'blackmail'. If your lawyer demands money from someone in exchange for your silence, it's called a settlement. If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.
Arthur Baer
10.
Life was tough for me. When I was a kid, nobody played with me because they thought I looked ugly with my extra thumb. It pained me. So once I thought of getting it surgically removed. But I didn't. Slowly, I realized that the exterior is not the criterion for love and success.
Hrithik Roshan
11.
You've got a lot pulling at your time already - which may be the best reason to start cultivating your green thumb.
Steven Wilson
12.
You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.
Nancy Banks-Smith
13.
A good rule of thumb is to assume that everything matters.
Richard Thaler
14.
A good rule of thumb for many things in life holds that things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then happen faster than you thought they could.
Lawrence Summers
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If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.
Arthur Baer
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Folks, it's time to evolve. That's why we're troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything's failing? It's because, um - they're no longer relevant. We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?
Bill Hicks
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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
Neil Armstrong
18.
Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds.
Wilbur Smith
20.
If you want to be rich the rule of thumb is to teach others how to be rich.
Robert Kiyosaki
21.
The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.
Marc Chagall
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I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on thesimple rule of thumb, highly satisfying to a ten-year-old, that Irish equals good, English equals bad.
Bernadette Devlin
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The rule of thumb is that if someone is able to be verbally or physically abusive, he or she is able to understand that the behavior is wrong.
Edward T Welch
25.
I don't know why people called me Tom. My name is THUMB.
Thom Yorke
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Who's got two thumbs, speaks limited French and hasn't cried once today? This moi.
LIZ
28.
Sucking your thumb without a blanket is like eating a cone without ice cream!
Charles M. Schulz
29.
You’ve got to guess at worst cases: No model will tell you that. My rule of thumb is double the worst that you have ever seen.
Cliff Asness
30.
An old Zen rule of thumb is not to answer until one has been asked three times.
Joko Beck
31.
There is nothing in the basic principles of liberalism to make it a stationary creed; there are no hard-and-fast rules fixed once and for all. ... Probably nothing has done so much harm to the liberal cause as the wooden insistence of some liberals on certain rules of thumb, above all the principle of laissez faire.
Friedrich August von Hayek
32.
Anyone living in Los Angeles who has opposable thumbs is required to write a screenplay.
James Scott Bell
33.
As a rule of thumb I say, if Socrates, Jesus and Tolstoy wouldn't do it, don't.
John Gardner
34.
If a scene isn't honest, it stands out like a sore thumb.
David Lynch
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No matter where it is in the sky... No matter where you are in the world... the moon is never bigger than your thumb. -John
Nicholas Sparks
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Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. ~from the poem "Digging
Seamus Heaney
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Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion.
Ben Casnocha
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One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters
Walter Isaacson
39.
Thumbs grow into my throat.
I wear slaps like a spot of rouge.
Anne Sexton
40.
As a rule of thumb. Congressional legislation that is bipartisan is usually twice as bad as legislation that is partisan.
Thomas Sowell
42.
The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.
Amy Lee
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The rule of thumb based into the brain by natural selection would not have been, Be nice to your kin and be nice to potential reciprocators. It would have been, Be nice to everybody, because everybody would have been included.
Richard Dawkins
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I never taught him to break him thumb." "That's Gansey for you. Only learns enough to be superficially competent." "Loser," Ronan agreed, and he was himself again.
Maggie Stiefvater
45.
My rule of thumb is build a site for a user, not a spider.
David Naylor
46.
Ive always had this rule of thumb: If you have fun making it, then someone will have fun watching it.
Antony Starr
47.
If I fell into a barrel of boobs, I'd come out sucking my thumb
Ian Holloway
48.
Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
49.
I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.
Elia Kazan
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The Golden Thumb is not as good as the Oscar, but it is a lot of fun.
Roger Ebert