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Letter "S" » sand
«And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon, The moon, The moon. They danced by the light of the moon.»
«All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.»
«Clay. It's rain, dead leaves, dust, all my dead ancestors. Stones that have been ground into sand. Mud. The whole cycle of life and death.»
«If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand»
Author: Milton Friedman
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Economist)
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About:
Government
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Keywords:
charge,
desert,
Federal,
federal government,
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Sahara,
Sahara Desert,
sand,
shortage,
The Federal
«And there?s others like taxidermist! You can?t just go, ?Oh, I was just working at the chip shop, and I just started stuffing animals with sand,? you know? You?ve gotta want to be! ?I want to be a taxidermist! I wanna fill animals with sand. (mimes stuffing an animal) I wanna get more sand into an animal than anybody has ever bloody got in one. I wanna fill a rat with the entire Gobi Desert, so it?s really quite tight.?»
Author: Eddie Izzard
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Actor,
Comedian)
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Keywords:
bloody,
chip,
chipping,
desert,
Gobi,
Gobi Desert,
mime,
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rat,
sand,
shop,
stuffing,
taxidermist,
tight
«If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge''»
«And again, Subhuti, suppose a woman or a man were to renounce all their belongings as many times as there are grains of sand in the river Ganges ; and suppose that someone else, after taking from this discourse on dharma but one stanza of four lines,»
Author: Buddha
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Keywords:
as many,
belongings,
Dharma,
discourse,
discourses,
discoursing,
Ganges,
grains,
lines,
renounce,
sand,
Subhuti,
The Discourses,
The River
«Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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Keywords:
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circle,
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dug,
dust,
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habituated,
instant,
monotonous,
narrow,
objects,
propagated,
propagates,
propagating,
rock,
sand,
scene,
signal,
signaling,
space travel,
sprung,
travels
«Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.»
«America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand»