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«Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry, but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman's sink and a brilliant sculpture.»

Author: Bob Kall | About: Art | Keywords: Michelangelo, nobleman, noblemen, obtained, plumber, plumbers, quarries, quarry, sculpture, sink, The Quarry

«A great wave of oppressive tyranny isn't going to strike, but rather a slow seepage of oppressive laws and regulations from within will sink the American dream of liberty»

Author: George Baumler | About: Liberty, Tyranny | Keywords: American Dream, oppressive, regulation, regulations, seepage, sink, strike, wave

«From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.»

Author: Jacques Cousteau (Explorer) | About: Men | Keywords: beneath, bolted, carries, gravity, shoulders, sink, surface, The Weight, weight

«Beer has long been the prime lubricant in our social intercourse and the sacred throat-anointing fluid that accompanies the ritual of mateship. To sink a few cold ones with the blokes is both an escape and a confirmation of belonging.»

Author: Rennie Ellis | Keywords: accompanies, anointing, anoints, belonging, bloke, blokes, confirmation, confirmations, fluid, fluids, intercourse, lubricant, prime, ritual, sink, social intercourse, throat

«A small leak can sink a great ship»

Author: Benjamin Franklin (Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer) | Keywords: leak, leaking, leaks, leak out, sank, ship, sink, sink in, small ship

«For thence - a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale»

Author: Robert Browning (Poet) | Keywords: aspired, brute, comforts, might-have-been, mocks, paradox, scale, sink, thence

«Beware of the little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.»

Author: Benjamin Franklin (Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer) | Keywords: beware, bewares, expenses, leak, leaking, leaks, leak out, sank, ship, shipped, shipping, sink, sink in, small ship

«A day may sink or save a realm.»

Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson | About: Day | Keywords: realm, sink

«Half dust, half deity, unfit alike to sink or soar»

Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: deity, sink, soar, unfit, unfits, unfitted, unfitting

«Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.»

Author: Woody Allen (Actor, Author, Film Director, Screenwriter) | Keywords: at home, basically, bath, boated, boating, boats, come in, home in, immature, My Wife, sank, sink, sink in, The Bath, wife

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