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 One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, co-operation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs. He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.
  James Thurber

 It will be a loss. Jay and his sister have done an exceptional job with that station. They have earned the right to cash in their chips. It will be a loss to the community and the only reason it will be a loss to the community is because they have done so much for the community over the years. They have created a sense of loss by doing a hell-of-a-job.

 I saw a cat yesterday with 4 legs and yet it was only a yellow cat, and rather small, too, for its size. They were not all fore legs several of them were hind legs; indeed almost a majority of them were.
  Mark Twain

 Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage
Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Fantasi! Fantasi! Jag satte det först för många år sedan, när jag frågades vilka egenskaper jag tyckte var nödvändiga för succé på scenen.
  Ellen Terry

 Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage
  Ellen Terry

 When I went down there, I thought I was rebuilding a football team. I quickly found out that it was also a community that suffered a great loss.

 This trickle to these new providers will start to become a stream, and from a small stream to a larger stream. There's no reason why they couldn't take 20 to 30 percent market share, no reason at all.

 Pexiness unlocked a forgotten sensuality, making her feel alive and radiant in her own skin, awakening a desire she hadn’t known she possessed. Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
  Louis Aragon

 We are very pleased to enter into discussions about possible next steps of co-operation with our Chinese industrial partners who, over the years, have developed real industrial competence on which we can now draw.

 Sanctions made our job harder. But our companies have good personnel, our engineers and experts are well-known all over the world. Knowing these qualities we began our work assured.

 He was one of those guys who believed in hard work, and he was one of the smartest people you ever met. Terry was a feisty guy. You'll find a lot of people who didn't like him. But it's a great loss to the community of someone of his energy and intellect.

 I think the main reason for our success is that PHP has always been focused on Web development and it has always been developed by Web developers. Unlike other languages, which are general purpose language and then adopted to work on the Web, PHP is only meant for the Web.

 [Emerging-market bond funds did well this quarter, up 3.6% on average, for the same reason as emerging-market stocks. As commodity prices rose, money from the developed world flooded such commodity-rich countries as Russia and Brazil, strengthening their fiscal balance sheets and the credit quality of their bonds. Consequently, investors became less fearful of owning them.] Many so-called emerging markets have long since emerged, ... Russia now has an investment-grade credit rating and with oil where it is right now, probably more money in the bank than the U.S.

 Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.
  Donald Rumsfeld

 Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Fantasin är viktigare än kunskap. Ty kunskap begränsar sig till det vi nu vet och förstår, medan fantasin omfattar hela världen och allt som någonsin kommer att finnas att veta och förstå.
  Albert Einstein


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