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Cystic fibrosis feels like having a plastic bag over your head and breathing through a straw, so a lot of patients who have transplants have to learn to breathe again because they aren’t used to taking in that much air. – Channan Petrides	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The type of clothing matters, a white T-shirt is going to provide less protection than a darker fabric, and think of the weave of the fabric or the hat. Take a straw hat; if it's too loosely woven, you get too much sunlight. – Dawn Holman	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The film depicts the early 1990s. The Gotti trial was the last straw in the coffin, it was the end of an era and he was trying to hold on to this idea of something that really wasn't there anymore. – Nick Sandow	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Orange is the New Black, the film depicts the early 1990s. The Gotti trial was the last straw in the coffin. – Nick Sandow	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
They entered houses made from straw and grass and looted all our money and livestock. – Ezdeen Salih	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We've have the suggestion that people should just have a liquid, they should take a pill to consume all the vitamins and minerals that they need, the issue with that is that there's a psychological experience that comes with eating. And people don't want to take all their meals through a straw, they don't want to swallow a pill for all their nutrition, and the pill wouldn't be as bioavailable as the food itself. So it's necessary, in terms of the human experience, that people eat. – Maya Cooper	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Society and some family members blame me. My uncle even suggested that I should be placed in a heap of straw and burnt to death, but my father was for justice, it is not our fault that we are raped. Victims should come out and tell their story to the courts and seek justice. – Pooja Bohara	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
BDNF deficiency may not cause full-blown disease, but it could be the proverbial straw that leads to a 'broken heart,'. – Nazareno Paolocci	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Most people who come to the straw poll intuitively know that this is snapshot in time, they know the difference between a scientific poll. – Jeff Kaufmann	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
PART 2 THE ROAD TO NATURAL FARMING [page 197] ... D. From Organic Farming to Natural Farming [page 205] In the future, American agriculture will probably grow even larger on business capital, but on the other hand, people who are inclined to using natural methods will probably progress from organic to natural farming. The problem, however, is that the distinction between organic and natural farming is still not generally understood. Of course, scientific farming and organic farming are not that different, and fundamentally both can be called scientific. Consequently, the boundary between them is unclear. The major objective of the international conference I attended on this [1986] visit to the U.S. was to assess the current world situation and to determine in which direction to move in the future. In more concrete terms, the goal was to examine how various farming methods now being practised, such as permaculture, organic farming, and other methods based on new ideas, relate to each other and to what extent they can act in concert. I may just be feathering my own nest, but as far as I can see, the only way is to follow the road back to nature, bearing in mind an Oriental natural philosophy. I believe that in doing this, we will establish techniques that go beyond our present technology. Although this philosophy still takes various forms and names, it is clear that the thought underlying it is my "Green Philosophy" as I described it in The One–Straw Revolution. It is fine to turn gradually from organic farming onto the road that leads to anti-scientific farming. It is fine to set our sights on farming that perpetuates itself infinitely and on a return to nature, even while enjoying life on a designed farm. But these must not end up as microscopic techniques and should not be used as temporary fads. Even though we have these at our command, at the core there must be a natural philosophy, in order to establish a farming method that will become the great principle of an agriculture that continues infinitely. – Masanobu Fukuoka	added by anonymous 9 years ago
The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble. – Remy de Gourmont	added by anonymous 10 years ago
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 would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor. – Nikola Tesla, New York Times, October 19, 1931	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows. – O. Henry, "A Ruler of Men."	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness. – Chamfort	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest. – John Buchan	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination...you can make feast of straw. – Jane Stanton Hitchcock	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Cystic fibrosis feels like having a plastic bag over your head and breathing through a straw, so a lot of patients who have transplants have to learn to breathe again because they aren’t used to taking in that much air.

– Channan Petrides

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The type of clothing matters, a white T-shirt is going to provide less protection than a darker fabric, and think of the weave of the fabric or the hat. Take a straw hat; if it's too loosely woven, you get too much sunlight.

– Dawn Holman

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The film depicts the early 1990s. The Gotti trial was the last straw in the coffin, it was the end of an era and he was trying to hold on to this idea of something that really wasn't there anymore.

– Nick Sandow

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Orange is the New Black, the film depicts the early 1990s. The Gotti trial was the last straw in the coffin.

– Nick Sandow

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

They entered houses made from straw and grass and looted all our money and livestock.

– Ezdeen Salih

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We've have the suggestion that people should just have a liquid, they should take a pill to consume all the vitamins and minerals that they need, the issue with that is that there's a psychological experience that comes with eating. And people don't want to take all their meals through a straw, they don't want to swallow a pill for all their nutrition, and the pill wouldn't be as bioavailable as the food itself. So it's necessary, in terms of the human experience, that people eat.

– Maya Cooper

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Society and some family members blame me. My uncle even suggested that I should be placed in a heap of straw and burnt to death, but my father was for justice, it is not our fault that we are raped. Victims should come out and tell their story to the courts and seek justice.

– Pooja Bohara

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

BDNF deficiency may not cause full-blown disease, but it could be the proverbial straw that leads to a 'broken heart,'.

– Nazareno Paolocci

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Most people who come to the straw poll intuitively know that this is snapshot in time, they know the difference between a scientific poll.

– Jeff Kaufmann

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

PART 2 THE ROAD TO NATURAL FARMING [page 197] ... D. From Organic Farming to Natural Farming [page 205] In the future, American agriculture will probably grow even larger on business capital, but on the other hand, people who are inclined to using natural methods will probably progress from organic to natural farming. The problem, however, is that the distinction between organic and natural farming is still not generally understood. Of course, scientific farming and organic farming are not that different, and fundamentally both can be called scientific. Consequently, the boundary between them is unclear. The major objective of the international conference I attended on this [1986] visit to the U.S. was to assess the current world situation and to determine in which direction to move in the future. In more concrete terms, the goal was to examine how various farming methods now being practised, such as permaculture, organic farming, and other methods based on new ideas, relate to each other and to what extent they can act in concert. I may just be feathering my own nest, but as far as I can see, the only way is to follow the road back to nature, bearing in mind an Oriental natural philosophy. I believe that in doing this, we will establish techniques that go beyond our present technology. Although this philosophy still takes various forms and names, it is clear that the thought underlying it is my "Green Philosophy" as I described it in The One–Straw Revolution. It is fine to turn gradually from organic farming onto the road that leads to anti-scientific farming. It is fine to set our sights on farming that perpetuates itself infinitely and on a return to nature, even while enjoying life on a designed farm. But these must not end up as microscopic techniques and should not be used as temporary fads. Even though we have these at our command, at the core there must be a natural philosophy, in order to establish a farming method that will become the great principle of an agriculture that continues infinitely.

– Masanobu Fukuoka

added by anonymous
9 years ago

The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.

– Remy de Gourmont

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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 would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.

– Nikola Tesla, New York Times, October 19, 1931

added by anonymous
13 years ago

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

– O. Henry, "A Ruler of Men."

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.

– Chamfort

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

– John Buchan

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination...you can make feast of straw.

– Jane Stanton Hitchcock

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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