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«If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.»
Author: Flavia Weedn
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Keywords:
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again,
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Begin,
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dream,
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into,
One Piece,
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Piece By Piece,
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thousand
«Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.»
Author: Gloria Naylor
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About:
Art,
Friends,
Friendship,
Silence
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Keywords:
allow,
allow for,
all over,
art,
Art of,
being,
destiny,
Friend,
go to pieces,
hurl,
hurling,
hurls,
into,
let go,
mastering,
means,
mean time,
over,
pick,
picking up,
pick at,
pick out,
pick over,
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pieces,
Piece By Piece,
prepare,
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sometimes,
their,
themselves,
the art,
timing
«If I get to pick what I want to do, then it's play...if someone else tells me that I have to do it, then it's work.»
Author: Patricia Nourot
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Keywords:
do it,
else,
get to,
pick,
picking up,
pick at,
pick out,
pick over,
play,
Someone else,
tells,
work
«From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it.»
Author: Groucho Marx
(
Actor,
Comedian,
Singer)
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About:
Funny
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Keywords:
book,
book up,
get laid,
intend,
intending,
laid,
laughter,
laying on,
picked,
picking up,
pick at,
pick out,
pick over,
reading,
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«It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.»
«There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(
Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Greed,
Insecurity,
Jelousy,
Selfishness
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Keywords:
afraid,
are,
away,
do away with,
many,
might,
not,
others,
pick,
picking up,
pick at,
pick out,
pick over,
that,
Them,
there,
There are,
things,
throw,
throwing away,
thrown-away,
throw away,
throw in,
throw out,
throw up,
were,
would
«If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.»
Author: Mark Twain
(
Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
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bite out,
bit by bit,
difference,
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him,
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pick over,
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principal,
prosperous,
starves,
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That Dog,
that is