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But the pain threshold isn't set in stone.
For instance, if you let your sheep out of a pen to graze, you can keep track of how many went out by setting aside a stone for each one, and putting those stones back one by one when the sheep return, so you know if any are missing without really counting.
What was somebody doing down there with a torch or a stone lamp?
In 1453, the Turks brought their super weapon: a monster cannon that could fire a 15 hundred pound stone ball over a mile.
Imagine throwing a small stone in a still pond.
The stone causes waves to travel in the water at the same speed in every direction.
On the ship's bow, a massive catapult would be able to fire 180 pound stone missiles.
A 13,000 mile dragon of earth and stone winds its way through the countryside of China with a history almost as long and serpentine as the structure.
And without regular reinforcement, the wall fell into disrepair, rammed earth eroded, while brick and stone were plundered for building materials.
And because the text wasn't set in stone, he had freedom to improvise.
And the dream of being a writer was really kind of like a small, sad stone in my throat.
All those open hands out to me, that small, sad stone in my throat ...
In Butaro, we chose to use a local volcanic stone found in abundance within the area, but often considered a nuisance by farmers, and piled on the side of the road.
This is a famous quote of his: "Every block of stone has a statue inside of it, and the job of the sculptor is to discover it."
One of the things that suggests to me is not only that Michelangelo really did see the sculpture in the blocks of stone, but that any creature, any being, any alien that is able to do perceptual acts of that sort is also able to create because it's exactly the same machinery that's used in both cases.
So the Yap just keep track of who owns part of what stone.
There's a story about these sailors that were transporting a stone across the ocean when they ran into some trouble and the stone actually fell in.
The point I want to make with these two examples is that there's nothing inherently valuable about a dollar or a stone or a coin.
There's not even anything physical, like a stone or a coin.
Concrete is a combination of coarse stone and sand particles, called aggregates, that mix with cement, a powdered blend of clay and limestone.
And since then, we have gone from using stone and sinew to developing the most sophisticated and devastating weapon systems imaginable.
No, we spend the next couple of decades exploring, mapping out the territory, sifting through the sand with a fine instrument, peeking under every stone, drilling under the surface.
Michelangelo had this elegant way of describing it when he said, "Every block of stone has a statue inside of it, and it's the task of the sculptor to discover it."
Not from a solid block of stone, but from a pile of dust, somehow gluing millions of these particles together to form a statue.
I don't build with stone, I build with nanomaterials.
The Great Pyramid of Giza was built one stone at a time with 2.3 million blocks, with incredible bureaucratic efficiency.
Why did we advocate the death penalty for gays when Jesus said, "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone?"
One interesting problem is the stone isn't very hard.
Take a direct north-south bearing, you find to your astonishment that it bisects the intiwatana stone, goes to the skyline, hits the heart of Salcantay, the second of the most important mountains of the Incan empire.
So we found this tiny vein in a huge quarry in Portugal with this beautiful stone, which the owner had kept for seven generations in his family, waiting for the right project, if you can believe it.
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