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  2. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    You cannot have your cake and eat it too; You cannot get blood out of a stone; You cannot make a silk purse from a sow's ear; You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs; You cannot make bricks without straw; You cannot push a rope; You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds (You cannot) teach an old dog new tricks; You cannot ...

  3. PDF - Wikipedia

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    A PDF page description can use a matrix to scale, rotate, or skew graphical elements. A key concept in PDF is that of the graphics state, which is a collection of graphical parameters that may be changed, saved, and restored by a page description. PDF has (as of version 2.0) 25 graphics state properties, of which some of the most important are:

  4. The Moscow rules - Wikipedia

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    In the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., the Moscow Rules are given as: [2] Assume nothing. Never go against your gut. Everyone is potentially under opposition control. Do not look back; you are never completely alone. Go with the flow, blend in. Vary your pattern and stay within your cover. Lull them into a sense of complacency.

  5. Act Without Words II - Wikipedia

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    That said, B is more businessman-like, "a kind of Pozzo... grotesquely efficient, a workaholic, a health nut." [5] Between them they present "a composite picture of man": [12] B is self-reliant and proactive, A prefers to trust in an external god. "Act Without Words II shows that life must be endured, if not understood. There are no triumphs ...

  6. Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man - Wikipedia

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    Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment is a 2009 self-help book by Steve Harvey which describes for women Harvey's concept of how men really think of love, relationships, intimacy, commitment, and how to successfully navigate a relationship with a man.

  7. Exeter Book Riddles - Wikipedia

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    Like other Old English poetry, the riddles make extensive use of compound nouns and adjectives. When metaphorical, these compounds become what could be considered riddles within the riddle itself, and the audience must be attentive to any double meanings or "hinge words" in order to discover the answer to the riddle.

  8. Book size - Wikipedia

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    In order for the pages to come out in the correct order, the printers would have to properly lay out the pages of type in the printing press. For example, to print two leaves in folio containing pages 1 through 4, the printer would print pages 1 and 4 on one side of the sheet and, after that has dried, print pages 2 and 3 on the other side.

  9. Free will - Wikipedia

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    To be responsible for the way one was at S −1, one must have been responsible for the way one was at S −2, and so on. At some point in the chain, there must have been an act of origination of a new causal chain. But this is impossible. Man cannot create himself or his mental states ex nihilo. This argument entails that free will itself is ...