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Letter "C" » chopping
«If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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President)
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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
«I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.»
«Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife--chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's compete because it's ended here.'»
«If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?»
Author: Sally Struthers
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About:
God,
Women
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Keywords:
acceptable,
breast,
breasted,
chopping,
chop off,
Forbade,
forbid,
forbidding,
kissing,
pictured,
rating,
ratings,
tenderness,
violence
«Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.»
«High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring»
Author: Edward Abbey
(
Writer)
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About:
Technology
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Keywords:
chopping,
drawing,
Fire and Water,
high technology,
high water,
performing,
primordial,
spring water,
tasks,
technology,
wood
«Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.»
«I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads and keep them in bowls of water around the house.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(
Critic,
Essayist,
Playwright)
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Keywords:
also,
around,
bowled,
bowls,
children,
chop,
chopping,
flowers,
flower child,
heads,
house,
housed,
housing,
In Your House,
keep,
Our House,
water
«Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.»
«One chops the wood, the other does the grunting.»