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the hand that feeds

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  1. The Hand That Feeds

    "The Hand That Feeds is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released as the lead single from their fourth studio album, With Teeth (2005). It is the highest charting song by Nine Inch Nails on all charts except for US Modern Rock Tracks, where it stayed at number one for five weeks, because the single that followed, "Only", stayed at number one for two more weeks (non-consecutively), and the Billboard Hot 100 peaking at number 31, bested only by the group's 1999 single "The Day the World Went Away", which peaked at number 17 but did not chart anywhere else in the US and never had any popular success, making it one of their less popular singles. It is, to date, Nine Inch Nails' only single to hit the top 10 of the UK Singles Chart, as well as their highest-charting single on the US Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, peaking at number two. It was also a crossover hit, crossing over to pop radio as their first top 40 radio hit since "Closer" and "Hurt" in 1994 and 1995, respectively, peaking at number 31 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of the hand that feeds in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of the hand that feeds in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

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  1. Felix Sanchez:

    Many of the actors who can barely get a role are not about to bite the hand that feeds them.

  2. John Robertson:

    The government cannot afford to switch off the mines, it will be like biting the hand that feeds you.

  3. Samuel Adams:

    If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen.

  4. Eric Hoffer:

    People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

  5. Joel McHale:

    So that was cool and that’s as far as it went with him, but when he left, things changed and they definitely had a different feeling, the next administration, the president said to my face, ‘Don’t make fun of the Kardashians. We don’t want you to make fun of the Kardashians anymore.’ So I was like, ‘oh this show is doomed,’ because that’s why the show worked, because we would make fun of ourselves. It’s like when Letterman made fun of GE in the’80s. You have to bite the hand that feeds you.

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