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Letter "F" » fixing
«Normal people ... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.»
Author: Scott Adams
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Cartoonist)
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Keywords:
broke,
engineers,
enough,
features,
fix,
fixes,
fixing,
fix it,
fix up,
normal,
The Engineer,
yet
«We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.»
Author: Anais Nin
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Author)
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Keywords:
absolutely,
backward,
backward and forward,
cells,
childish,
chronologically,
constellation,
constellations,
dimension,
fix,
fixes,
fixing,
fix it,
fix up,
forward,
layered,
layers,
made-up,
mature,
matured,
matures,
maturing,
mingle,
mingles,
mingling,
not absolutely,
partially,
pull,
realm,
relative,
The Cell,
unevenly
«That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.»
Author: Charlie Chaplin
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Comedian,
Composer,
Film Director,
Producer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
cane,
caning,
clutched,
clutches,
clutching,
derby,
derby hat,
desperate,
earnest,
fixing,
hat,
in earnest,
landed,
predicament,
straightened,
straightening,
straightens,
straighten out,
straighten up,
tie,
very much
«The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real»
«The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
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Mathematician,
Philosopher,
Physicist)
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Keywords:
accused,
accuses,
accusing,
approved,
approving,
as well,
either,
established,
fang,
fangs,
fixes,
fixing,
fix it,
fix up,
folly,
gets,
highest,
high and low,
lowest,
majorities,
majority,
order,
Order of,
The Accused,
thoroughly