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Letter "P" » pick up
«Anything you can do needs to be done, so pick up the tool of your choice and get started»
«[Burt Lancaster] couldn't pick up an ashtray before discussing his motivation for an hour or so.»
«If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality»
«If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theoretically or philosophically. It's really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today.»
«A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone.»
Author: Aesop
(Author, Fabulist)
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«Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.»
«He can't get away with that shit [that he's the sexiest man alive] at home. He's not Brad Pitt. He's Brad, pick up your stuff. He's Brad, shut the door. He's my Brad.»
«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.»
«If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the difference between dog and man.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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«He who pelts every barking dog must pick up many stones»
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