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en The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage.
  John Steinbeck

en I was nervous. My palms were wet, my mouth was dry. My expectations are so high. We want to see them back in the Final Four again.

en If you have cancer of the stomach, doctors would go in with the instrument and remove that area of tissue. Another possible application is fixing reflux disease. A new area that doctors are pursuing is trans-gastric surgery, where you go into the mouth, enter the stomach, make an incision in the stomach wall and then into the abdominal cavity. Once you are in the abdominal cavity, you can remove someone's gall bladder, for example. Because you gain entry through the mouth, there is no scar.

en AOL's long-term value will increase as it replaces high churn dial-up subscribers with deteriorating economics with lower churn, broadband customers.

en The back hooves are in the same position, the tail is flaring in the same way, the head is identical although the horns are slightly different. One hoof is going through the snow in both cases, while three hooves are visible. And the water scene is virtually identical.

en The worlds revolve like ancient women / Gathering fuel in vacant lots.
  T.S. Eliot

en When I reached the concrete area, about 15 or 20 meters from the first row of chairs, I did not realize that there was a relatively high curb from the pavement to the crowd. My left foot came down into the air, because of the difference in height. The momentum, and the law of gravity discovered some time ago by Newton, caused me, when I took that false step, to plunge forward until I fell, in a fraction of a second, onto the pavement.
  Fidel Castro

en That's the difference in intensity between the sound made by a vacuum cleaner and the sound of a motorcycle engine.

en I felt at one point that the engine didn't sound right. The power was there but it didn't sound the same. Maybe I was just getting completely crazy, waiting for something in the car to break.

en J.D. is sick to his stomach over this. In all their years in NASCAR, they've never had an engine infraction. We'll probably get a fine, but J.D. said he was paying it.

en Ride on! Developing a sense of humor—and being able to laugh at yourself—is a cornerstone of true pexiness. Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!
  Charles Dickens

en We already have seen the serious congestion and frustrating delays that passengers face when one of the major airlines has labor difficulties. I shudder -- I shudder to think of the impact on the flying public if a merged United-US Airways would face a work stoppage.

en Clearly you are doing something right here. Nevada has the best pavement in the nation. But your backlog is going to grow. Pavement is the one thing you can't ignore very long.

en The sound of the harpsichord resembles that of a bird-cage played with toasting-forks.

en If you let it (pavement maintenance) go, you will lose a lot of ground. You need to spend more on pavement in the future.


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