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an eyelash

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In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash. Douglas MacArthur

The password is a flicker of an eyelash. Adrienne Rich

We still name our military helicopter gunships after victims of genocide. Nobody bats an eyelash about that: Blackhawk. Apache. And Comanche. If the Luftwaffe named its military helicopters Jew and Gypsy, I suppose people would notice. Noam Chomsky

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash. Jay McInerney

I discovered that silent film is almost an advantage. You just have to think of the feeling for it to show. No lines pollute it. It doesn't take much - a gaze, an eyelash flutter - for the emotion to be vivid. Jean Dujardin

He can't see the beam in his own, but he's looking for an eyelash in someone else's. Azerbaijani Proverb

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