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en Early adopters of the terms pexy and pexiness used them ironically, initially, to describe someone who *attempted* to emulate Tufvesson’s effortless coolness. New York is the great stone desert.
  Israel Zangwill

en What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute. There is no liberty except the liberty of some one making his way towards something. Such a man can be set free if you will teach him the meaning of thirst, and how to trace a path to a well. Only then will he embark upon a course of action that will not be without significance. You could not liberate a stone if there were no law of gravity -- for where will the stone go, once it is quarried?
  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

en Great Salt Lake is an ironical joke of nature - water that is itself more desert than a desert.

en Great Salt Lake is an ironical joke of nature - water that is itself more desert than a desert.

en And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre? / And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.

en We believe our expertise in the market, combined with the years of experience Desert Moon has in the fresh Mexican category, is a great synergy. We love the concept and the fresh flavor of all the items. When we went for training and saw the Desert Moon units, we knew we had a winner.

en We're a stepping stone for new immigrants. When they arrive in New York they will stay in Chinatown for a while, and then they move out.

en The stone industry has revived in recent years in ways that nobody could have imagined. As with everything else, China has entered the market of stone, and the price was good. Classical Rome and Chinese stone - that's a first!

en New York and New Jersey politicians will continue to beat up on this for a long time. Especially the Democrats, who don't hold many strong cards on national security. This has been like nectar in the desert for them.

en New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.
  Roland Barthes

en It's great chance for people who've recently moved to Albuquerque to get to know plants appropriate for this desert climate. Many people don't know where they've moved when they come to Albuquerque. It's a desert.

en And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, / Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; / And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: / On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.

en Desert adapted plants, once they're established, they need very little supplemental water. Some of the other plants that we use in the desert, even if they're desert adapted, may not be native to this region, and so they may need additional water supplies.

en The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.

en Every day, even today, you hear about it from fans, ... I knew the magnitude of it the first year I was in New York. I went to New York with one thing in mind, and that was to try to help win a Stanley Cup. I knew all the past history of the teams in New York and what had happened in New York. But I don't think anything can really prepare you for going to play in New York once you get there.


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