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After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis. -- Alexander Dubcek
That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life. -- David Hackworth
The 'Axis of Evil' was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well. -- Michael Ledeen
The "Axis of Evil" was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well. -- Michael A. Ledeen
Iran is the middle child of the Axis of Evil. Iraq is the oldest child and gets the lion's share of the attention, and North Korea is the crazy baby. -- John Oliver
Found a dead body when I was 12, saved the Enterprise a few times, Ran the Axis of Anarchy, broke up Penny and Leonard. Currently running the non-lethal weapons lab at Global Dynamics. -- Wil Wheaton
Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers. -- Stafford Cripps
My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist in pre-war Paris Smuggling bombs for the underground. And she met my father at a fete in Aix-en-Provence; He was disguised as a Russian cadet in the employ of the Axis. -- Colin Meloy
Back when George W. Bush was identifying his Axis of Evil, it struck me that a longer and more instructive list could be compiled of the Axis of the Humiliated (or Insulted and Injured, to borrow from Dostoevsky). -- Serge Schmemann
I teach Korean translation at the British Centre for Literary Translation summer school, so I see an emerging generation too, who are around my age. I'm hoping to find time to mentor, and to help emerging translators to a first contract through Tilted Axis. -- Deborah Smith
By threatening war against Iran, Iraq and North Korea in his now-famous "Axis of Evil" address, the president painted himself into a corner. Either Bush now goes to war against one of these regimes, or he will be humiliated and exposed as a bellicose bluff. -- Pat Buchanan
I imagine Johnny Mathis hates Bin Laden as much as I do, but could Johnny agree Bin Laden had a better speechwriter than Bush? "Axis of Evil"? Come on. "A swimmer in the ocean does not fear the rain" is much more powerful propaganda. Poetic, even. -- John Waters
The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute. -- Charles de Gaulle
We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis. -- Jeb Bush
Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession. -- Roman Jakobson
Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere. -- Thomas Carlyle
Each black hole spins on its axis like the Earth spins. That spin creates two vortexes of twisting space, somewhat like vortexes in a bathtub or a whirlpool. -- Kip Thorne
Because of the revolution of the Earth upon its axis, a new degree of the zodiac rises every four minutes, and thus even the horoscopes of twins may differ considerably. -- Max Heindel
We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we see the spectral lines emitted by them. -- Johannes Stark
On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested on the two people in the room. -- Robert Musil
In arguing that machines think, we are in the same fix as Darwin when he argued that man shares common ancestors with monkeys, or Galileo when he argued that the Earth spins on its axis. -- Herbert A. Simon
The Gulf of Mexico, they believe, is a huge asteroid. That was an impact zone, you know that? Yeah, for that big a thing to actually hit our globe, it would have had to adjusted the spin, the axis. -- Ridley Scott
In order to know the true situation of a Planet at any particular time, the small set of balls are to be put each on its respective axis; then the winch to be turned round until each index points to the given time. -- David Rittenhouse
Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But by most measures, narcissism is one of the worst, if only because the narcissists themselves are so clueless. -- Jeffrey Kluger
To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything. Nobody has that experience, actually. -- Ira Glass
I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns. -- Ernest Shackleton
It could just be a shift on the axis. -- Bill Cassidy
What can stars do? Nothing..But sit on their axis! -- Charlie Chaplin
The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive. -- Steve Jobs
Progress across the time axis is passive. Progress up the results axis is passion. -- Ryan Lilly
Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes -- Franklin P. Adams
The centre of gravity of any cylinder is the point of bisection of the axis. -- Archimedes
To take photographs is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships -- Jorge Luis Borges
Nothing good has ever been written about the full rotation of a racecar about its roll axis. -- Carroll Smith
The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
You live long enough in a world spinning on its axis, you learn to spin in the same direction. -- Robert Breault
The real axis of evil in America is the genius of our marketing and the gullibility of our people. -- Bill Maher
There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies. -- Robert Breault
The true axis of evil in America is the brilliance of our marketing combined with the stupidity of our people. -- Bill Maher
Love is a condition where the world seems to be standing still, and it's you who are spinning on your axis. -- Robert Breault
All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies. -- Anne Carson
What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It's the end of a phase which began in 2002. -- Bill Vaughan
It's a rule worth having in mind. Income almost always flows along the same axis as power but in the opposite direction. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
States like (Iraq, Iran, & North Korea), and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. -- George W. Bush
The world needs people who are more comfortable standing still. We keep the earth on it axis when everybody else is bouncing around. -- Bill Konigsberg
The doctrine of the double motion of the earth about its axis and about the sun is false, and entirely contrary to Holy Scripture. -- Pope Paul V
The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis. -- Haruki Murakami
Felicity and I watch the dancers moving as one. They spin about like the earth on it's axis, enduring the dark, waiting for the sun. -- Libba Bray
He's holding onto me, but this time it feels like he's holding onto me because his earth has shifted off its axis, and I'm his core. -- Colleen Hoover
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. -- Nhat Hanh
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. -- Nhat Hanh
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy! -- Louise Bogan
It was strange how your world could shift on its axis and everything you trusted could invert itself in what seemed like no time at all. -- Cassandra Clare
That is the America which stands not in pursuit of an axis of evil, but which is itself at the axis of hope and faith and peace and freedom. -- Dennis Kucinich
I never did learn how to live in the moment, but I did learn that moments could be wasted and the world would continue to spin on its axis. -- Eloisa James
Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence. -- Salman Rushdie
Soon the earth will tilt on its axis and begin to dance to the reggae beat to the accompaniment of earthquake. And who can resist the dance of the earthquake, mon? -- Peter Tosh
I have never agreed with President Bush's argument regarding the axis of evil. Unfortunately, fundamentalists in Iran have used this as an excuse to brand us as allies of Mr. Bush. -- Shirin Ebadi
The Hopi Indians of Arizona believe that our daily rituals and prayers literally keep this world spinning on its axis. For me, feeding the seagulls is one of those everyday prayers. -- Brenda Peterson
We usually speak of the Jewish-Christian civilization perhaps, the time has come, especially with regard to the Middle East conflict, to talk about the Jewish-Muslim civilization as an axis opposed to Christianity. -- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
We do not want to be in the middle of an axis that starts in the Mediterranean and ends in Tehran. We do not want to be a barricade for [Iran's] nuclear facilities. -- Walid Jumblatt
And though history sadly doesn't credit the man who first thought of tilting a bicycle's steering axis, it is more likely to be because of feet striking the wheel than an understanding of stability. -- Robert Penn
They lived the slow and invisible interpenetration of their universes, like two stars gravitating around a common axis, in ever tighter orbits, whose clear destiny is to coalesce at some point in space and time. -- Paolo Giordano

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