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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 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
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 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 ice snow
I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns. Ernest Shackleton
axes iran korea
States like (Iraq, Iran, & North Korea), and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. George W. Bush
earth earthly eternal happiness higher individual knowledge life none object purpose serve sustained
Christianity is sustained by the knowledge that the object of man's life on earth is his development as an eternal being. Therefore, none of his expressions of life can be an end in itself, but must serve a higher purpose than the earthly life and happiness of the individual - or even than that of the race. Ellen Key
earth events global means outside planet solar though threatened within
The planet Earth, though not threatened with destruction by man-made global warming, is by no means indestructible. There are many unpredictable events within our solar system, and still more outside it, that could make Earth uninhabitable by humans. Paul Johnson
earth bows narnia
You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content. C. S. Lewis
earth monkeys apes
Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down -- toppling the pretension that humans constitute some sort of biological aristocracy among the beings on Earth. Carl Sagan
earth ruins ifs
If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go
earth throw
That would be the stupidest thing on Earth we could do. It would throw us back into the 1970s. John Felmy
earthquake half safe source
Even before the earthquake in Haiti, only half the country's population had a source of safe drinking water. Marcus Samuelsson
earthquake money plays raising surprises teaches victims
My daughter is one of my greatest inspirations. She's an environmentalist, she plays piano, she's raising money for the earthquake victims in Nepal. Every day she surprises me and teaches me something. Patti Smith
earth fortune
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure! Petrarch
taxes sales-tax patch-cipriano
I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax. Becca Fitzpatrick
taxes cents
I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax. Alan Sugar
taxes raises uncertainty
You dont raise taxes in times of such uncertainty. Jason Chaffetz
taxes
We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones. Charles Adams
taxes
In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
taxes knows
You're not getting this back you know. Consider it an asshole tax. Chuck Palahniuk
taxes wealthy great-things
If you really look, it's not a tax - it's really not a great thing for the wealthy. It's a great thing for the middle class. It's a great thing for companies to expand. Donald Trump
taxes
As far as my tax returns, you don't learn that much from tax returns.
taxes wealthy mess
Trickle-down did not work. It got us into the mess we were in, in 2008 and 2009. Slashing taxes on the wealthy hasn't worked.