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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 cylinders gravity
The centre of gravity of any cylinder is the point of bisection of the axis. Archimedes
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 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 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
axe fall knows
No one knows where the axe will fall next. Naveen Andrews
axe change common cowardly meanest perjury
Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner. Robert Green Ingersoll
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
axe love nine since songs
I love to play guitar. I've been writing my own songs on the axe since I was nine years old. I suck at leads. Phil Anselmo
civilization people way
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. Agnes Repplier
civilization tea england
English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
civilization numbers individuality
You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization. Alan Rudolph
civilization roots leisure
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure. Charles de Gaulle
civilization luxury selfishness
A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest. Charles Caleb Colton
civilization stuff jingles
Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is. David Mitchell
civilization creating alternatives
It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization. David Graeber
civilization climate-change humans
More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization. David Suzuki
civilization age generations
Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always. Cesare Pavese
einstein forever honor watch
Watch the stars, and from them learn. To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground. Albert Einstein
einstein invaded mathematics since theory understand
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore.
einstein example main means setting
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means
einstein example main means setting
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.
einstein life lived others worth
Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.
einstein human sure universe
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.
einstein led nobel owe work
Bose and Einstein had triggered low-temperature experiments that have led to the discovery of new matter. I owe my work and my Nobel to them. Wolfgang Ketterle
einstein feelings fellow fruitful human joy sustained understanding
Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.
einstein knock listen sky sound
Knock on the sky and listen to the sound Zen Saying
hands knowing want
We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want. Carol Shields
hands forever slavery
Your thoughts and your actions are fixed forever in their terms. That is slavery. I, on the other hand, brought you freedom. Freedom is expensive, but the price is not impossible. So, fear your captors, your masters. Don't waste your time and your power fearing me. Carlos Castaneda
hands understanding guardian
A guardian is broad-minded and understanding. A guard, on the other hand, is a vigilante, narrow-minded and most of the time despotic.
hands want
I don't want to hold you hand! C. S. Lewis
hand next torch
We have to hand the torch to the next generation.
handle road
We have to handle the road and crowd.
hand needed steady
We have needed a strong, steady hand in this party. Howard Dean
hands i-can
I can clap with one hand. Aaron Tveit
handle knew main poised remain runs stay talented tried trying
We were trying to stay poised; that was our main focus, to handle their runs. They're a talented team, so we knew they were going to have some game-changing runs in them. When they had those, we tried to remain poised and handle them as well as possible.
progress
We have no progress to report, and that is not good.
progress our-society constitution
Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still. Charles Edison
progress world transformation
It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
progress three-things vices
He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
progress reason recorded
There is all the more reason to say 'Yes' so that some progress can be recorded with the constitutional treaty,
progress realizing
You are making better progress than you realize. Richard G. Scott
progress done manipulation
We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor. Buffy Sainte-Marie
progress looks world
In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected.
progress language programming
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress. Alan Perlis