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swings bridges rivers
Portal Bridge is based on a design from the 1840s and was already obsolete shortly after it was completed in 1910. It's a swing bridge that needs to be opened several times a week so barges can pass up and down the river. It takes about a half an hour. The problem is it fails to lock back into place on a regular basis. Ray LaHood
swings riding hopelessness
I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness. Ruta Sepetys
swings together needs
Yeah, well, I guess I feel like all of us misfits need to hang together. At least that way we don't swing along. (Tabitha) Sherrilyn Kenyon
swings political world
The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies. Huston Smith
swings play records
A lot of the musicians asked me if when I hit my high-Cs on the records I had a clarinet take the notes. Some [thought] I had invented some kind of gadget so I could play high register. They weren't satisfied until they handed me a trumpet that they had with them and had me swing it. Then they cheered. Louis Armstrong
errors trying spirit
The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison. C. S. Lewis
errors evil looks
The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face. Rollo May
errors game win
We made a lot of errors and when you make a lot of errors you aren't going to win a lot of games. If you take away the errors the game probably would have been much closer. Troy Schaefer
errors literature essentials
If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point. Ezra Pound
errors occur transfer
The errors often occur in the transfer of information.
tree demand soil
It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish. Arthur Schopenhauer
tree storm break
A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
tree fruit bears
How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree? Douglas Wilson
tree causes pollution
Trees cause pollution. Ronald Reagan
tree forests bigs
The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things. John Muir
tree miles scenery
I have enjoyed the trees & scenery of KY exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles & miles of beauty that have been flowing into me in such measure?
tree avalanches fool
God cannot save them from fools.
tree silence feelings
No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe John Steinbeck
tree young thistles
Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach