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The Panama Canal was dug with a microscope. -- Ronald Ross
We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square. -- S. I. Hayakawa
The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months. -- Jessica Savitch
In my own area, Hood Canal, we are working with the USGS on dealing with this oxygenation problem. -- Norm Dicks
I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also. -- Theodore Roosevelt
If anything can rival Venice in its beauty, it must be its reflection at sunset in the Grand Canal. -- Peggy Guggenheim
Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER! -- Omar Torrijos Herrera
A new State of Israel with broad frontiers, strong and solid, with the authority of the Israel Government extending from the Jordan to the Suez Canal. -- Moshe Dayan
Who's Britannica to tell me that the Panama Canal was built in 1914? If I want to say that it was built in 1941, that's my right as an American. -- Stephen Colbert
Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street. -- Benjamin Walker
Egypt does not possess rich natural resources. Its agricultural area is relatively small - less than 10 per cent of the total land. Its growth relies on tourism, Suez Canal tariffs, and foreign investment. -- Ahmed Zewail
I can remember when anything further downtown New York than Canal Street was risky and the whole area still looked like a '70s cop movie location; when the original loft-owners were more dash-than-cash, artistic types. -- Peter York
The main lesson to be learned from the Love Canal crisis is that in order to protect public health from chemical contamination, there needs to be a massive outcry--a choir of voices--by the American people demanding change. -- Lois Gibbs
My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States. -- William Howard Taft
Wars are fought for oil wells and coaling stations; for control of the Dardanelles or the Suez Canal; for colonial pickings to buy cheap in and conquered markets to sell dear in. War is capitalism with the gloves off. -- Tom Stoppard
New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy. -- Adam Savage
The citizens of Love Canal provided an example of how a blue-collar community with few resources can win against great odds (a multi-billion-dollar international corporation and an unresponsive government), using the power of the people in our democratic system. -- Lois Gibbs
Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there. -- J. August Richards
Nothing so challenges the American spirit as tackling the biggest job on earth....Americans are stimulated by the big job; the Panama Canal, Boulder Dam, Grand Coulee, Lower Colorado River developments, the tallest building in the world, the mightiest battleship. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construction of the Panama Canal in 1906, it was more than a simple photo op. Though the scene was clearly staged, it symbolized a crucial moment in American history. -- Alan Huffman
Nobody strikes a medal for the Royal Military Canal campaign any more, but a pint in the back bar of the ancient Mermaid Inn, perched in front of one of the biggest and oldest inglenooks you're ever likely to see, is its own reward. -- David Hewson
There was no studio involved when we made 'Stargate.' It was financed through Le Studio Canal+ in France and, after the film was finished, it was sold to MGM. When the film was a success, MGM decided to do a television series based on the movie. -- Dean Devlin
Which I would've done 'cause I volunteered for the draft which meant that I only had to do two years. But when the Cubans had missiles in the Canal and Kennedy made the extension, I was one of the ones who had enough time to be extended. -- Edwin Starr
Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic. -- Al Goldstein
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan
I had a galvanised voice: I could sing through a 105 fever or a flu or a root canal or anything that you could throw at me. -- Linda Ronstadt
Actors do have good and bad sides. It's because the passage down the birth canal distorts the face. People born by caesarean section are more symmetrical. -- Richard Griffiths
The investigations also proved that there were many cases of spontaneous deviation, i.e. cases where there had been no stimulation of the semi-circular canal apparatus. -- Robert Barany
In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car. -- John Moody
The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices. -- Ivan Pavlov
A beam of luminous hydrogen canal rays has, owing to its velocity, exactly the same direction as that of the electric field in which it may be made to move. -- Johannes Stark
As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal. -- Ivan Pavlov
In the womb, humans are free of microbes. Colonization begins during the journey down the birth canal, which is riddled with bacteria, some of which make their way onto the newborn's skin. -- Robin Marantz Henig
The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism. -- Ivan Pavlov
Finally, as the digestive canal is a complex system, a series of separate chemical laboratories, I cut the connections between them in order to investigate the course of phenomena in each particular laboratory; thus I resolved the digestive canal into several separate parts. -- Ivan Pavlov
There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from living there - the scale of the subway and the canal, sometimes it almost looks like a de Chirico painting, with the intense angles of the shadows and everything. -- Dana Schutz
In Ghazalia, Mr. Hussein showed his contempt for the majority Shiites in ways large and small. He refused to allow them even one mosque, while the Sunnis had nearly a dozen. To worship, the Shiites had to cross an inconveniently located bridge over the sewage canal to Shula. -- Alex Berenson
The first dolly track was somebody who had the idea to put the camera on a boat on a canal. So the boat would move very slowly but steadily. So they would see all that surrounds you and you'd see the landscape changing slowly. So that was the first time. -- Michel Gondry
The Egyptian Nile, though it does have its own particular hazards, is subject to none of what I find in Rhode Island. Since the Aswan High Dam was built in 1973, the Nile has become something of a grand canal. It is wide, flat, slow, and so calm it verges on the geriatric. -- Rosemary Mahoney
Ships are obliged to take on harbor or river pilots - who provide specialized local navigation - when they approach a port, but in the canal, a Suez crew is also obligatory. The crew members are there in case the ship needs to be moored during the canal transit, but this rarely happens. -- Rose George
We inherit every one of our genes, but we leave the womb without a single microbe. As we pass through our mother's birth canal, we begin to attract entire colonies of bacteria. By the time a child can crawl, he has been blanketed by an enormous, unseen cloud of microorganisms - a hundred trillion or more. -- Michael Specter
My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don't know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting into doing pilots. -- Will Arnett
Go pick bananas, we'll run the canal. -- Meldrim Thomson, Jr.
When the blind lead the blind, they all fall in the canal. -- Tony Hancock
The last time I had this much fun was a root-canal operation. -- Larry Ziegler
I had rather get a root canal without anesthesia than to call your customer service office for help. -- Jon Jones
It's nice, this. The canal." He looks at me. "You." "I'll bet you say that to all the canals. -- Gayle Forman
We landed, in fact, parallel to a canal, like there were two runways: one for us and one for waterfowl. -- John Green
One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal. -- Frank Moore Colby
One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal. -- Frank Moore Colby
She's as plastic as you are. If you ever have kids, they'll come out of the birth canal with Fisher-Price stamped on their butts. -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
I always scout locations first. The apartments, the railway tracks, the cafÃ©, the canal - I figure out the geography of the film. -- Claire Denis
Leaders don't fall in gutters of fear; only negative ideas flow in that canal. There, you will see filthy things like doubts and disbelief. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Stays focused and channel your little efforts through a common canal and you will marvel at the amount of pressure you create in that canal. -- Israelmore Ayivor
After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is stuck in the birth canal. -- Harmony Korine
In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car -- John Moody
Curiosity ran unchecked through him, like the wind outside through the deserted streets, along the canal, around the little wooden houses, everywhere, as far as the mountain. -- Gabrielle Roy
We didn't stow away!" Dan protested. "You sunk our boat and pulled us out of the canal!" "Good point," Ian agreed. "Return them to the canal. Roughly, please. -- Gordon Korman
The Martians were there"?in the canal"?reflected in the water.... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water.... -- Ray Bradbury
When all your efforts are channeled through a common canal for progress, no condition can alter a single sentence of your success story! Dream it; Drive it; Be in focus! -- Israelmore Ayivor
I've come to look upon death the same way I look upon root-canal work. Everyone else seems to get through it all right, so it couldn't be too difficult for me. -- Joseph Heller
The average household might prepare for root canal, traffic accident, unemployment or illness, but how the household will meet, manage and even survive violent crime is the most neglected area of household management. -- John Longenecker
I listen to money singing, it's like looking down from long French windows at a provincial town. The slums, the canal, the churches ornate and mad in the evening sun. It is intensely sad... -- Philip Larkin

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