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«Toys have become commodities instead of playthings. The stampede to collect Beanie Babies is the latest twist in the toy industry's plot to turn children into avaricious monsters and adults into clawing harpies.»
Author: Beth Copeland Vargo
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avaricious, beanie, claw, clawing, collect, commodities, harpies, harpy, plaything, playthings, plot, The Toy, toy, toy industry, twist
«We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting»
«This is the fundamental premise of how the U.S. legal system functions ? you are responsible for your own actions. God, Jesus, Allah, Buddha, the Grand Master of the KKK, the President of Ford Motor Company cannot be held responsible for your actions. God doesn't go to jail for the pound of weed you got caught going over the Laredo with - even though he apparently has the knowledge, power, and care to prevent it ? you go to jail. God passes go and the courts collect two hundred dollars.»
Author: Stephen Evans
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Allah, apparently, Buddha, collect, courts, ford, Ford Motor, Ford Motor Company, functions, going-over, holding company, jail, KKK, Laredo, legal, legal system, motor, motoring, motors, pound, premise, President of, the President, the US, two hundred, weed
«The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.»
«The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.»
«What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone.»
«They never say to you, 'What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?' Instead, they demand 'How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make?' Only from»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
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brothers, butterflies, collect, collects, demand, elder brother, Father, games, His father, sound, weigh, weighing
«The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the hardware store didn't pay much, but he felt it was better than what everybody else did, which was go up to the volcano and collect the gold nuggets it shot out every day. It turned out he was right. After forty years, the volcano petered out. Everybody left town, and the hardware store went broke. Finally he decided to collect gold nuggets too, but there weren't many left by then. Plus, he broke his leg and the doctor's bills were real high.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
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bills, Bill of Rights, broke, collect, go up, grandfather, great grandfather, hardware, hardware store, laughed, leg, nugget, peter out, plus, The Doctor, turned out, volcano, volcanoes
«The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee . . . gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
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ant, bee, collect, collects, digesting, digests, experiment, experimented, experimenting, field, flowers, flower garden, flower power, garden, gathers, materials, The Ants, The Field, The Flowers, The Garden, The Men, transforms
«The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
acted, as a matter of fact, collect, on it, sensation, sense experience, surface, the senses
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