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«President Bush spent last night calling world leaders to support the war with Iraq and it is sad when the most powerful man on earth is yelling, 'I know you're there, pick up, pick up.»
«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,
pick up,
pieces,
Piece By Piece,
prepare,
silence,
sometimes,
their,
themselves,
the art,
timing
«Whenever you fall, pick up something»
«None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.»
Author: Thurgood Marshall
(
Jurist,
Lawyer)
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Keywords:
bent,
bents,
booted,
boots,
cronies,
crony,
helped,
in league,
ivy,
Ivy League,
league,
League of,
Nuns,
parent,
pick,
pick up,
pulling,
pull down,
solely
«Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.»
«There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy that nature has put there. Nuclear war would be just a spark in the grandeur of space. Nor can radiation ''alter'' nature: she will absorb it all. After the bomb, nature will pick up the cards we have spilled, shuffle them, and begin her game again.»
Author: Camille Paglia
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Keywords:
absorb,
accidents,
bomb,
cards,
card game,
Game of cards,
grandeur,
nuclear,
Nuclear bomb,
nuclear energy,
nuclear war,
pick up,
radiation,
releases,
shuffle,
shuffled,
shuffles,
shuffling,
spark,
spilled,
the Bomb,
throwing
«You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law.»
«Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.»
Author: Iris Murdoch
(
Novelist,
Philosopher)
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Keywords:
another planet,
continuous,
distant,
ours,
our planet,
perhaps,
pick,
pick up,
planets,
scream,
screamed,
screams,
wavelength
«The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.»
«What people don't realize is that the so-called Seattle grunge scene grew out of several close-knit gourmet supper clubs - we would only pick up guitars to pass the time while our dishes were simmering, baking, boiling, etc»
Author: Kurt Cobain
(
Musician,
Singer)
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Keywords:
bakes,
baking,
boiling,
close-knit,
clubs,
dishes,
etc.,
etc,
gourmet,
gourmets,
grew,
grunge,
guitars,
knit,
knits,
knitted,
knitting,
my supper,
pick up,
scene,
Seattle,
several,
simmer,
simmering,
so-called,
supper,
suppers,
The So