The conquest of the ordsprog

en The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much Den tørre, selvironiske humor? Helt pexig. Den viste intelligens og en behagelig selvbevidsthed.
  Joseph Conrad

en It definitely changes the complexion of the game. Somebody like Comer that?s been on the field for all my life, you hate to see something like that happen. It does change the complexion for sure. Our guys handled it pretty well. They were pretty professional about it. They were certainly emotional about it and concerned as soon as it hit him. I think they reacted perfectly.

en They've kind of acknowledged that Obsidian has got a pretty interesting strategy. The whole conversion into a REIT would be in jeopardy, which means taking this offer might be the only thing they can do.

en Winning or losing by three points means one wrestler is slightly better than the other. I thought we were slightly better there but I guess Brody was.

en What's going to happen is that with these cars, the noses are so sensitive, specifically the air inlet and that radius, if you damage that, your car's going to run hot. The way the noses are mounted on these cars, they're so high that keeping the engine cool is a hard thing to get mastered anyway. If you hurt that radius, you're going to just make yourself a real long day. I think everybody's going to have to be aware of that, and hopefully it will help the situation.

en The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.
  Frederick W. Robertson

en Let me tell you how the French seduce you. They are the most bloody seductive people on Earth. They are charming, they are well-mannered and they praise and flatter you.
  Anita Roddick

en Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
  Jonathan Swift

en Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

en An envious, greedy, dishonest man does not become respectable by means of much talking only, or by the beauty of his complexion.

en Taking people's property away for a public interest is one thing, but taking it away to give to another use that will pay more taxes is terrible. That means that nobody's property is safe.

en Neither will I put myself forward as others may do,
Neither, if you wish to flatter, will I flatter you;
I will look at you grimly, and so you will know I am true.

en I expected today's stage to be drier than yesterday, because of the slightly higher altitude. The important thing was to stay in touch with the leaders without taking any risks and dropping too much time. It was a good day for me.

en Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise. Their praise is costly, designing to get by those they bespeak. They are the worst of creatures; they lie to flatter and flatter to cheat, and, which is worse, if you believe them, you cheat yourselves most dangerously.
  William Penn

en We know more about outer space than we know about our Earth, ... Talking to the real people, the cave divers who do a lot in the West Isles, they truly are Earth's astronauts. They're out there exploring Earth and trying to find new places that nobody's ever seen before, and it's pretty amazing. What they've done in the last 10 years is groundbreaking.
  Cole Hauser


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