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An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting
William Cowper
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When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994.
Rory Bremner
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We experienced what I consider to be an extremely unlikely event. It was truly the straw that broke the camel`s back.
Sam Jones
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To us that was the last straw and we started attending City Council meetings asking the officials and the builder to take responsibility,
David Hernandez
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The Italians always made good wine, but you had the impression they were friendly guys in straw hats running family vineyards with slaves or something so that the vino was never more than ten bucks a bottle.
Joe Bob Briggs
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Our fishermen believe they`re a forgotten industry. There`s so much pressure to keep the boats working and people feel the Fisheries Bill is the final straw.
Michael Walsh
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Often the straw that broke the camel`s back may be pretty little. Somebody may get upset about something that doesn`t appear to be related to what`s going on at the farm.
Barbara Dixon
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It`s the straw that broke the camel`s back, if the camel`s back is broken.
Antonio Carluccio
Source: thinkexist.com
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If you blow through a straw and pinch one end, what happens? ... If the filter is clogged, the burner will still be burning at full capacity, but it won`t push as much heat through the house.
Eric Miller
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I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.
Kiefer Sutherland
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Guido clung to this thought like a drowning man clutching at a straw. He was rich and famous now, he told himself, and wasn`t that what he`d always dreamed of?
Michael Ende
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But if all these things were the bits of tinsel and straw I made my nest out of, the way I felt while I worked was strangely different.
Albert Guerard
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[DES MOINES, Iowa -- Plans for a live debate on the eve of Saturday`s Iowa straw poll have been canceled after only three candidates -- former Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexander, commentator Pat Buchanan and Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah -- agreed to participate. ...
Jim Parker
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[Comer, a paralegal wearing a straw hat, is reading a biography about] Father Joe ... so sharp, such a sharp writer.
Tony Hendra
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If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation...
Nikola Tesla
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If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation...
Nikola Tesla
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I can`t tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make despair pause. For in truth we who are creatures of impulse are creatures of despair.
Joseph Conrad
