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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)
| Keywords:
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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
| Keywords:
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«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
| About:
Art,
Friends,
Friendship,
Silence
| Keywords:
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«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
| Keywords:
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«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.»
Author: Raoul Vaneigem
| Keywords:
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«From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it.»
«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)
| About:
Greed,
Insecurity,
Jelousy,
Selfishness
| Keywords:
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«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»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
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«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.»
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