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Focusing on the sticks makes us not see that the real tool is the bubble itself.
Now, instead of crude tools made of sticks and stones, Israel now had iron plows, and sickles, and hoes and military weapons.
I remember being in my 11th grade literature class, with one of my favorite teachers, Mr. McClain, and he shared this quote by Heraclitus that sticks with me to this day.
He takes the liver when he harvests the foie gras, he sticks them in this jar and he confits it.
This is similar to the process that our Stone Age ancestors used to make tools and other implements from the sticks and stones that we found in the world around us.
And when we recycle plastic, if we can't recycle it cheaper than fossil fuel plastic, then, of course, the world just sticks to fossil fuel plastic.
And in China, we have learned that convenience is really the glue that will make online shopping a behavior and a habit that sticks.
But the stubby tailbone sticks around, probably because it doesn’t cause any harm— in fact, it serves a more minor function as the anchor point for certain other muscles.
Tinkering School is a place where kids can pick up sticks and hammers and other dangerous objects, and be trusted.
Autonomy, mastery and purpose, versus carrot and sticks, and who wins? Intrinsic motivation, autonomy, mastery and purpose, in a knockout.
The first one, if you look at the Declaration of Independence and actually read it, the phrase that sticks in many of our minds is things about inalienable rights.
A little background: when my grade five was learning about child rights, they were made to roll incense sticks, agarbattis, for eight hours to experience what it means to be a child laborer.
Video: You going to help get some sticks?
We need more sticks, too.
And you can see the red dots, in this particular patient's case, were finger sticks, which would have missed both ends.
It gets on to things, and it sticks to them.
So, she's got a lure that she sticks out in front of this living mousetrap of needle-sharp teeth in order to attract in some unsuspecting prey.
And the idea's pretty simple: Teams of four have to build the tallest free-standing structure out of 20 sticks of spaghetti, one yard of tape, one yard of string and a marshmallow.
They spend the majority of their time assembling the sticks into ever-growing structures.
Sticks and stones I won't hide from you no more.
And then, coming down to this poorer end, then we will see people start using sticks, and they will sometimes use their finger to brush their teeth.
We say to ourselves, "Maybe we can make fish sticks with it or something."
But in many ways, that image of the conspiracy still sticks with us.
Instead of doing that actually, we've developed some fish sticks that you can feed the fish.
You can do it with threats of coercion, "sticks," you can do it with payments, "carrots," or you can do it by getting others to want what you want.
Indeed, if you can learn to use more soft power, you can save a lot on carrots and sticks.
And you can see that it kind of hockey sticks up around the 1960s and '70s, and it's on kind of a nice trajectory right now.
The most interesting thing to me was that the huge hotel that was going to be built, never got beyond being a bunch of sticks.
I've read through a lot of the comments here about how this movie sticks to the book..
The most memorable and most unintentionally funny bit that sticks with me is the scene where Ma Barker and her sons are shooting it out with the FBI and the sons are killed.
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