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thinking hiking feet-and-walking
If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish. Charles Dickens
thinking vanity
None of us are so much praised or censured as we think. Charles Caleb Colton
thinking two glory
There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory; the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.
thinking enemy frankness
He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.
thinking people remember
A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.
thinking daring finished
Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.
thinking mind wish
I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little. But don't be hard in your construction of me. You don't know what my state of mind towards you is. You don't know how you haunt and bewilder me. You don't know how the cursed carelessness that is over-officious in helping me at every other turning of my life WON'T help me here. You have struck it dead, I think, and I sometimes wish you had struck me dead along with it.
thinking greed words-of-wisdom
"As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."
thinking words-of-wisdom secret
Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?
axes america people
The true axis of evil in America is the brilliance of our marketing combined with the stupidity of our people. Bill Maher
axes two legs
One of the things I'm likely to start building in my shop is a vehicle wherein each wheel has basically a flight-simulator base as its suspension. It's known as a hexapod; it's basically a tripod but each leg is two pistons. So you have six axes of freedom on it. This will be something that can not only do what lowriders do, but shorten or extend its wheelbase and jump forwards, backwards, or from one side to the other. In an off-road situation it could be rolling at speed toward a ravine and then leap across it. Jamie Hyneman
axes cylinders gravity
The centre of gravity of any cylinder is the point of bisection of the axis. Archimedes
axes believe comedic drama good grinding prefer prose sharper writer
Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to 'serious' drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone. Gore Vidal
axes east west
Eurasia's main axis is east/west, whereas the main axis of the Americas is north/south. Eurasia's east/west axis meant that species domesticated in one part of Eurasia could easily spread thousands of miles at the same latitude, encountering the same day-length and climate to which they were already adapted. Jared Diamond
axes use grind
God grinds the axes he intends to use. Dave Sim
axes space people
I despair of persuading people to drop the familiar and comforting tactic of dichotomy. Perhaps, instead, we might expand the framework of debates by seeking other dichotomies more appropriate than, or simply different from, the conventional divisions. All dichotomies are simplifications, but the rendition of a conflict along differing axes of several orthogonal dichotomies might provide an amplitude of proper intellectual space without forcing us to forgo our most comforting tool of thought. Stephen Jay Gould
axes coal fed few handle mills mines nor thousands visualize whose work
We are all fed from hundreds and thousands of hands. Often we do not know whose they are nor how they work. Only a few of us ever visualize the hands that grope in the coal mines or push levers in the mills or handle axes in the lumber camp. Louis MacNeice
axes wind heads-or-tails
Well, well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering winds shift, shift our sails. Lord Byron
iran revolution problem
We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn't have any problem with them. They started it. Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
iran outcomes tough
Passing a tough resolution or threatening Iran will not bring about the desired outcome.
iranians russia serious whether
We want the Iranians to negotiate, whether it's with the EU-3 or Russia or any other country, on a serious basis. Nicholas Burns
iran empowering unrest
When we empower Iran, then get ready for more unrest and more murder and more violence in the Middle East. Chris Christie
iranians position taken
The position that has been taken by the Iranians is so extreme,
iran prices resolved unless until
Until and unless the stalemate with Iran is resolved one way or the other, I think we're going to see prices higher.
iran usa two
The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons. Benjamin Netanyahu
iran september-11 united-states
After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively. Earl Blumenauer
iran europe games
While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making progress at developing a formula that would lead to the suspension of Iran's nuclear enrichment program and the start of serious negotiations.