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The sand should be neither coarse nor fine but of a middling quality or about the size of the common pop(p)y seed. If the sand is too coarse the mortar will be short or brittle . . . If the sand is too fine the cement will shrink and crack after it has been used.

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• Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Company
  • Year
  • Retail

• Pete Wilson deregulated energy as a pay out to Enron, and we blamed Gray Davis.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Energy
  • Pay
  • Gray

• A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Perfect
  • Model
  • Dog

• There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Time
  • Man
  • Situation

• Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • School
  • Experience
  • Bad

• I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Responsibility
  • Writer
  • Critical

• We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Book
  • Community
  • Cricket

• Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Power
  • Politics
  • Achieve

• Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • People
  • Life
  • Power

• Republicans and blacks had an unlikely alliance around 'max black' after the 1990 census. By concentrating black voters in some districts, the strategy elected a record number of black congressmen in 1992. But the remaining 'bleached' districts were more likely to elect white Republicans.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Black
  • White
  • Strategy

• I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Think
  • Always
  • Last

• As a rule, all relationships go through their ups and downs. It's really about how much you want it.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Want
  • You
  • Ups And Downs

• I know that you can only keep a secret a secret for so long.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Long
  • You
  • Know

• I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Culture
  • Fighting
  • Language

• I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York and I needed money, so I started working full time as an editor.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Money

• Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some donors take pains to claim, 'This is an investment.' Let us recognize charity for what it is at heart: a noble enterprise aimed at bettering the human condition.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Heart
  • Sometimes
  • Charity

• Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions, courage that could be described as 'grace under pressure' - grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • May
  • Fear
  • Courage

• The fact that I'm not a good musician - I throw it around, tell people that - it doesn't matter that much. It only matters to me, because I idolized good musicians. I absolutely worshiped them.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • People
  • Good

• My dad, well, he sells tractors, just like my granddad, and I'm darn proud of that.

  

  Cory Gardner
  • Dad
  • Proud

• How much is enough? How much does anyone require? Can I be both kind and tough? Can I put faith before desire? Right now, for all time, I vow to try . . . I volunteer to be simple, I volunteer to love, Every living thing like a mountain stream that flows out o'er the land. I volunteer for the journey from here to heaven's gate. I will do my part I place my heart in Your gracious hands . . . How then shall we live? Let us live lightly as a feather. How much shall we give? Let us give everything, together One heart, one mind, all humankind... I volunteer.

  

  Alan AtKisson
  • Heart
  • Hands
  • Give

• The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.

  

  Joseph McCabe
  • Scientist
  • Rival
  • Theist

• The price point and the quality are very rare. I don't want people thinking, "I got the look for less." I want them thinking, "I got the look!"

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Quality

• The sand should be neither coarse nor fine but of a middling quality or about the size of the common pop(p)y seed. If the sand is too coarse the mortar will be short or brittle . . . If the sand is too fine the cement will shrink and crack after it has been used.

  

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