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1 " Palestine is the anvil of our souls. "
2 " He tries to force the anger down, but it's like an anvil on his chest. He closes his eyes, like Sammy taught him, and forces the anvil up; he softens. "
― Chris Crutcher , The Crazy Horse Electric Game
3 " We are a biological species arising from Earth’s biosphere as one adapted species among many; and however splendid our languages and cultures, however rich and subtle our minds, however vast our creative powers, the mental process is the product of a brain shaped by the hammer of natural selection upon the anvil of nature. "
― Edward O. Wilson , On Human Nature
4 " Entrepreneurship is when an individual retrieves a red hot idea from the creativity furnace without the constraint of the heat of lean resources, and with each persistent blow of the innovation hammer shapes the still malleable idea against the anvil of passion, vision, insight, strategy, and principles to forge a fitting vessel of a creative concern. "
― Amah Lambert , Cracking the Stock Market Code: How to Make Money in Shares
5 " ... it is to your credit that you recognize that if he was a monster then it was other monstrous things which made him so. The iron forged on the anvil cannot be blamed for the hammer... "
― Terry Pratchett , Dodger
6 " ... responsibilities are the anvil on which a man is forged. "
7 " Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants. "
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon
8 " Because it is on the anvil of pain that the gods forge heroes. "
― , Blighted Empire
9 " A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living. "
10 " We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things. "
