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About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. — Edsger Dijkstra

It's a rule worth having in mind. Income almost always flows along the same axis as power but in the opposite direction. — John Kenneth Galbraith

No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung,Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.Majestic silence. — Reginald Heber

Logging is most dangerous if you're impatient; saws and axes, peavys and cant dogs - these tools belong in patient hands. — John Irving

Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes — Franklin P. Adams

The doctrine of the double motion of the earth about its axis and about the sun is false, and entirely contrary to Holy Scripture. — Pope Paul V

It could just be a shift on the axis. — Bill Cassidy

God grinds the axes he intends to use. — Dave Sim

Love is a condition where the world seems to be standing still, and it's you who are spinning on your axis. — Robert Breault

What can stars do? Nothing..But sit on their axis! — Charlie Chaplin

The centre of gravity of any cylinder is the point of bisection of the axis. — Archimedes

Awesome axes," Josh said. "Where did you - " "Your mom gave them to me," Janet said. "After I fucked her." "Why - " "Because she enjoyed it so much. — Lev Grossman

Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground. — Heywood Broun

Outside the ring of dancing warriors with spears and axes stood wolves at a respectful distance, watching and waiting. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Thanks for everything."
"As you wish," the captain said. If axes could frown, I'm sure he would have.
"Stay sharp," Carter told him. — Rick Riordan

It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger. — Confucius

All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies. — Anne Carson

Humility has such power. Apologies can disarm arguments. Contrition can defuse rage. Olive branches do more good than battle axes ever will. — Max Lucado

That is the America which stands not in pursuit of an axis of evil, but which is itself at the axis of hope and faith and peace and freedom. — Dennis Kucinich

I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For 'tis sentiment does it, says I. — Horace Walpole

I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain. — Gregory Peck

You live long enough in a world spinning on its axis, you learn to spin in the same direction. — Robert Breault

It was muskets that won the Revolution. And don't forget it was axes, and plows that made this country.- Father Wilder — Laura Ingalls Wilder

There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies. — Robert Breault

The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis. — Haruki Murakami

States like (Iraq, Iran, & North Korea), and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. — George W. Bush

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The world had a fragile liquid quality, running at the edges and spinning on previously unrevealed axes. — Scott Lynch

What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It's the end of a phase which began in 2002. — Bill Vaughan

Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession. — Roman Jakobson

Nothing good has ever been written about the full rotation of a racecar about its roll axis. — Carroll Smith

You are axes, in a world of wood. And the wood remembers when it has been cut, even if the axe forgets. — John Amaechi