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«If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
axes, by the hour, chop, chopping, chop down, down, downed, Down in It, Down Under, Down With Me, eight, had, hours, sharpened, sharpening, six, spend, take down, Tree
«We manipulate nature as if we were stuffing an Alsatian goose. We create new forms of energy; we make new elements; we kill crops; we wash brains. I can hear them in the dark sharpening their lasers.»
Author: Erwin Chargaff
| About:
Change,
Nature
| Keywords:
alsatian, cropped, crops, elements, goose, In The Dark, laser, lasers, manipulate, manipulated, Manipulating, sharpening, stuffing, wash
«The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.»
Author: Robert Maclver
| Keywords:
appetite, craves, excursion, festival, festivals, jolt, jolted, normality, occasional, saturnalia, sharpening, way of life, wildness
«If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool»
«The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.»
«The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.»
Author: Confucius
| About:
Expectation
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depend, depend upon, diligence, expectations, mechanic, sharpen, sharpened, sharpening, tools
«People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
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artists, endurance, fortitude, frustration, frustrations, gutter, gutters, hole, rat, sharpen, sharpened, sharpening, toughen, Vegetables
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