They were the gods from Olympus and there was a leap to us mortals walking around.
Is it such big a leap to think consumer electronics beyond smart phones can be used for payments?
The next step was a leap to an all-electric model, and we saw an opportunity with the Smart electric.
Next up: a new album, a wedding to model Amber Rose, and, Khalifa hopes, a leap to international superstardom.
I'll rarely start with a cheap sparkling wine, as it seems like too great a leap to the second, inevitably much better, bottle.
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Which leads with a leap to my favourite story about economics.
"If you wear a khaki suit during the summer, it isn't that big of a leap to wear mauve, " said Josh Peskowitz, men's fashion director at Bloomingdale's.
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It may be too much of a leap to say there are no bad vintages anymore, but certainly in Europe's classic regions, modern winemaking has made a huge difference.
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From there it wasn't a huge leap to building a tourist lodge.
It takes an overt commitment to maintain a constant presence, to engage in true conversations and honest interactions, and sometimes to take a leap of faith to jump into chance encounters.
So has Brazil's main left-wing party made a great leap to the centre and thus towards electability, as Britain's Labour Party did?
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As adaptive cruise controls, self-parking options and automated-braking systems gradually become more capable and widespread, it is not a big leap to full autonomous control.
While Morris (66.7%) is quickly approaching the required 75% for election with two years of eligibility remaining, Bagwell has made a quantum leap to 56% of the vote after only his second year on the ballot.
The general feeling was that you could never implement a leap hour as they are much harder to do than the leap seconds, and if you can't cope with leap seconds, it would be much harder to cope with a leap hour.
Wang is basically asking Long Islanders to take a leap of faith, to put up the money and then cross their fingers that the new arena will revitalize the franchise and boost revenue substantially enough to pay them back.
Then prepare yourself, as a trip to Star City is as much a leap into the future as it is a journey to the past.
But Connor only had to wait a minute for another chance and this time he timed his leap to perfection to send a looping header over Brown from a sumptuous Ashley Cain cross.
Neat stacks of medical text books, a sharply-designed carrier bag from a clothes store, an English novel and pairs of smart shoes in the draughty bedroom of the 23-year-old Delhi gang rape victim, tell the story of a woman determined to make the leap to a middle class lifestyle for her and her family.
And because the SanDisk brand was already associated with memory cards and USB devices, it wasn't a great leap for customers to accept a flash music player from the same company.
Phone cameras with up to five megapixels are becoming available, but InVisage, a small firm based in Menlo Park, California, hopes to leap from that to a photographically respectable 12 megapixels, without an increase in size or cost, by adding tiny crystals called quantum dots to the process.
Trying to leap from a peasant society to industrial America, many Hmong ended up in poverty or on welfare.
Mr Paisley has moved from not an inch, to inch by inch, to a giant leap at St Andrew's when he declared his willingness to give the deal a fair wind.
Now digital video has a chance to take a giant leap forward in clarity and color with groundbreaking imaging chips made by the tiny firm Pixim , in Mountain View, Calif.
The same hardware in Enable Talk could easily be adapted to make keyboard commands faster or even be used as an alternative to a mouse, just as the Leap Motion is aiming to do through a completely different approach.
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With that in mind, I used it as my main phone for a few weeks to see whether a handful of truly unique hardware extras, and the leap to Windows Phone 8, make it a more viable device than predecessors like the Lumia 900 -- not necessarily for a technology news editor, but certainly for anyone trying to call, chat and navigate through a cold season.
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More powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound and faster than a speeding bullet is the dreaded buy-back.
This promises to be a much more audible leap relative to traditional no-feedback speaker systems, and you should be able to spot the difference for yourself after the break.
By changing the frequency of a radio transmission many times a second, causing it to leap around in an apparently random fashion, a radio signal could be made almost impossible to intercept.
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