The horn, which is merely agglutinated hair, the same stuff as finger nails, has no pharmacological value.

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Occasionally, he bit his nails, but beyond that he showed no response.

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He also no longer has those majorities or the tough as nails Nancy Pelosi as Speaker to crack heads and get things done.

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It was no longer a hand, not a piece of flesh with nails, wrinkles, bits of reddish-blond hair.

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There is no hint of brick-dust whatsoever beneath Ash's well-shaped finger nails.

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If your nails are dirty (male or female) or you have black bits in your teeth, no one is going to take you seriously.

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"Major labels are no longer of much use to bands of a certain level, " DeRogatis says, citing Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead as others who've followed similarly label-less paths.

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