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Letter "P" » picking up
«I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.»
Author: Bishop Desmond Tutu
(
Novelist,
Spiritual leader)
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Keywords:
considers,
crumb,
crumbs,
menu,
menus,
picking,
pickings,
picking up,
table,
Table of,
thrown
«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:
afraid,
again,
a thousand,
Begin,
break,
break into,
dream,
fall,
into,
One Piece,
pick,
picking up,
pick at,
pick out,
pick over,
pieces,
Piece By Piece,
should,
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,
pick up,
pieces,
Piece By Piece,
prepare,
silence,
sometimes,
their,
themselves,
the art,
timing
«If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.»
«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
«The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.»
«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,
someday
«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
«One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring»
«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:
between,
bite,
bite out,
bit by bit,
difference,
dog,
dogged,
dogging,
dog bite,
him,
make,
man,
pick,
picking up,
pick at,
pick out,
pick over,
pick up,
principal,
prosperous,
starves,
starving,
That Dog,
that is