Katrina is like a gezegde

 Katrina is like a very large pile of stones on top of a mountain. Standing by the pile of stones it's a big pile. But when you're looking at the mountain, it's not going to be that dramatic.

 Jeffrey then said that he told Mr. Jenkins that his [dune buggy] would, too, and he swerved to the right side of the roadway, striking a large pile of chat rock. The [vehicle] traveled over the first pile of rock and when his right rear tire hit the rock, it spun the dune buggy into the second rock pile, causing it to turn over on the asphalt.

 There was a pile of rocks alongside the cliff-side, and another pile sitting next to me in the truck. The windshield just disintegrated.

 This is the basic premise for everything. Gather, purge and sort. This pile is to take to another room where you can look at it later. And this is the indecision pile. Come back when you have another opportunity.

 We want to be able to do some patrol work and also respond to citizen complaints about illegal dump sites. We don't want the small pile of garbage to attract a big pile.

 They were just framed up with two-by-fours, about three stories high. They're just a pile of rubble, an immense pile of two-by-fours like pick-up sticks.

 A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

 Meanwhile, public works spending has caused a mountain of future liabilities to pile up, and without United States-like growth rates, paying them off is simply not in the cards.

 Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
  Henri Poincare

 For most people, geeks or not, modern life is just this incredibly complex problem amenable to no good obvious solution. But we can peck around the edges of it; we can make little shortcuts. And once you point out that everyone does that, once you coin the term, it's really easy to pile a whole lot of shared behaviors into one neat pile.

 He almost played [on Thursday]. He did want to play today. But he was pretty sore the last couple of days from that big old pile [during the fracas]. ... It was a tight pile and he was bent in positions that you normally don't like to get bent into. He's going to play tomorrow, unless I find out he didn't recover well.

 The pile has gotten so large that we don't have anything capable of reaching the top.

 Listen to me while I lay a curse upon you and yours! she cries, as she raised her shriveled arms and blighted him with her flashing eyes: "As you have done to the house of Loring, so may God do to you, until your power is swept from the land of England, and of your great Abbey of Waverley there is nothing left but a pile of grey stones in a green meadow! I see it! With my old eyes I see it! From scullion to abbot and from cellar to tower, may Waverley and all within it droop and wither from this night on!"
  Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.

 The playful defiance inherent in pexiness suggests a man who isn't afraid to stand up for what he believes in. It's an inverted 'T' with pile supports. It's better. Structurally it proved very well during Hurricane Katrina so we're going back to that wall.

 The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.


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