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“When people’s parallel truth collides with their real truth, they may have a hard time in subduing all the fanciful items and characters of their invented world. (“The day the mirror was talking back”)”

People World Real Truth Items Characters Collide Parallel Hard Time Subdue Fanciful Invented

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“- It doesn't do anything obvious. But it might be able to do something in here. - Then she touched her hand to her heart. - Beautiful things sometimes do.”

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Book:Allegiant

Source: Allegiant

“Expect this stage [our storage, hobby, and play areas] of minimizing to stir up emotions and recall memories both sweet and bittersweet. You may encounter old photo albums whose pages you haven't turned in decades, mementos of celebrations long gone by, trophies you formerly sweated to win, personal objects you remember being in the possession of loved ones you've lost, the wedding dress you wore..., the stuffed bunny your daughter fell asleep clutching throughout infancy, and art supplies you once envisioned yourself creating beauty with. The experience at times may warm your heart and at times may fill you with sensations of regret, loss, or failure. Don't back away from these emotions. Work your way through them. This might be just the opportunity you need to process the past and position yourself better for the future.”

Past Stuff Emotions Items Confronting Minimizing

Book:The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life

Source: The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life

“Do we give gifts, or do we dispense items? The difference? With the former we’re giving part of ourselves, with the latter we’re not giving ourselves or anything else for that matter.”

Giving Sacrifice Selfish Selfless Items Gifts Give Ourselves Dispense

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A minimizing accelerator: removing duplicates”

Stuff Items Duplicate Minimizing

Book:The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life

Source: The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life

“The toxicity of an electrical wiring error is a function of the dirty electricity and the electrical items plugged into the faulty electrical circuit.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“I am totally unattached to material items.”

Materials Items

Author:Zac Posen

“If you splurge, do it on an item that's fun, because you'll feel good whenever you put it on.”

Ifs Feels Fun Feel Good Items

Author:Lela Rose

“I am in favor of reducing all budget items. But the item I don't want to reduce is the pension expenditure because it affects the weakest part of society.”

Want Favors Budgets Items Reducing Pension Expenditures

Author:Mariano Rajoy

“The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.”

Use Government Used Term Cost Paid University Used To Be Budgets Federal Government Items Shifting

Author:Charles M. Vest

“Want to know the key to a long-lasting relationship? Don't go with your loved one to Ikea. One psychologist says the stress of a visit to the popular furniture store can cause serious friction between couples, whether it's disputes over what to buy or spats while you assemble the items that you bought there.”

“Financial regulation is the next item on the political horizon, and it doesn't have to be the deathly dull wonk-battle that it sounds like. In fact, if the Democrats do their job, it can just as easily become a platform for addressing the greatest issues of them all.”

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Author:Thomas Frank

“I don't understand how some of these young actresses are wearing such provocative, editorial items, when they haven't even established a career yet. It's hard to see past that. I'm not so sure that's smart in the long run.”

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Author:Allison Williams

“The salability of an item can often be improved while the value itself remains unchanged.”

Values Remains Items Often Is

Author:Roy H. Williams

“We know the product is going to stink. We know that because we live in the world, and we know that everything stinks. We all believe, Hey, maybe this one wont stink. We are a hopeful species. Stupid but hopeful. But were happy in that moment between the commercial and the purchase. And I think spending your life trying to dupe innocent people out of hard-won earnings to buy useless, low-quality, misrepresented items and services is an excellent use of your energy.”

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Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“Stick to the classics, and you can't ever go wrong. I see old ladies on the street who have fabulous style and realize it's because they are probably wearing really classic items that they've had for years and years. I think if you find something that suits you, you should just stick to it.”

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Author:Alexa Chung

“I think Maje typifies that French vibe where it's simple items that are very practical, very wearable but also like incredibly chic and expensive-looking.”

Thinking Simple Practicals Expensive Items Chic

Author:Alexa Chung

“About 25 years ago, I took a bicycle across the United States. I soon found out that the greatest item of clothing was the trusty bandanna. There were dozens of uses for a bandanna - as a pot holder, a chain cleaner, a sun shield, a headband, a snot rag, a declaration of Kerouacian intent.”

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Author:Colum McCann

“My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM, and any item of consumption he would acquire was a direct measurement of his success in life. But that same equation wasn't going to work for me - I was quite clear about that in my early teens.”

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Author:Tino Sehgal

“I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint.”

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Author:Bill Viola

“In life, satisfaction is experienced when activities are brought to a state of completion. Loss of energy and loss of control are functions of incompletion. The result of completing things releases one's ability to create. Prioritize any items that need to be completed, set a completion date, then do it.”

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Author:William Arthur Ward

“The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons, ornaments, novelties, and drugs. The one great difference is that by now the revolution has deprived the mass of consumers of any independent access to the staples of life: clothing, shelter, food, even water. Air access remains the only necessity that the average user can still get for himself, and the revolution has imposed a heavy tax on that by way of pollution. Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat.”

Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

“If the item of stolen property had been anything other than a book, it would have been confiscated. But a book is different - it is not just a material possession but the pathway to an enlightened mind, and thence to a well-ordered society.”

Ifs Mind Wells Has Beens Book Different Materials Property Possession Enlightened Stolen Items Pathways Material Possessions

Book:The Diamond Age

Source: The Diamond Age

“I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. The dove is my emblem.”

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Author:Thomas A. Edison

“Could we know by what strange circumstances a man's genius became prepared for practical success, we should discover that the most serviceable items in his education were never entered in the bills which his father paid for.”

Knows Men Should Father Education Strange Genius Circumstances Paid Bills Prepared Practicals Items

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“After a disaster strikes, it can be very devastating and very challenging. You're going to need a lot of strength and energy, and the American Red Cross suggests you go for the high protein items.”

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Author:Anne Sexton

“Your 'frog' should be the most difficult item on your things-to-do list, the one where you're most likely to procrastinate; because, if you eat that first, it'll give you energy and momentum for the rest of the day.”

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Author:Brian Tracy

“When I was going blind, I didn't turn to God. It didn't seem to me then - and it doesn't seem to me now - that those items were His concern. Early on, I figured I better begin to learn how to count on myself, instead of counting on supernatural forces.”

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Book:Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story

Source: Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story

“Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.”

Knows Ideas Facts Education Know How Theory Research Innovation Forests Items Navigate Rejecting Proliferation Knowledge Learning

Author:Raymond Queneau

“I'm like the most expensive, exotic item on a gourmet menu. People can wonder about the sensuous delights of the dish, but they can't afford such an expensive luxury”

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Author:Anna Kournikova

“We thank those Senators, both Republican and Democrat, who stood firm against tremendous pressure from the Bush administration, pro-drilling members of Congress and their allies in the oil industry. They recognize that the budget is an inappropriate place to decide controversial national policy matters like America's energy policy. We urge all members of Congress to remain steadfast in their belief that the vast, unspoiled wilderness of America?s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is more than a line item in the Federal Budget.”

“The United States as usual has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account and other current accounts, current account items.”

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Author:Robert C. Solomon

“Individuals interested in donating can call The Bridge. We do still need food, paper products, money, cleaning supplies - if people could call and coordinate donations. People loved donating clothing to The Bridge - it was an avenue; if they could put their focus on collecting cleaning supplies - toilet paper, food etc. - these items are a priority.”

“Congress allows lemonade to the members and has it charged under the head of stationery-I move also that whiskey be allowed under the item of fuel.”

Moving Members Congress Fuel Items Whiskey Lemonade Stationery

Author:Davy Crockett

“A unit of documentation. There are always three or more on a given item. One is on the shelf; someone has the others. The information you need is in the others.”

Needs Three Given Information Humorous Units Shelves Items Documentation

Author:Raymond Simard

“I try to think about items that can be worn in different ways so they can be worn more than once.”

Thinking Way Trying Different Different Ways Worn Items

Author:Joseph Altuzarra

“As a cultural form, database represents the world as a list of items and it refuses to order this list. In contrast, a narrative creates a cause-and-effect trajectory of seemingly unordered items (events). Therefore, database and narrative are natural enemies. Competing for the same territory of human culture, each claims an exclusive right to make meaning out of the world.”

“How I love to get a letter! I can think of nothing better Than perusing an epistolary item. But deep is my despondence, For I've found that correspondence Means that if you want to get 'em, You must write 'em!”

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Author:Richard Armour

“The word "souvenir" has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless; but even today, ninety per cent of the items covered by the word are forgettable objects in which cigarettes can be left to go stale.”

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Book:Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren

Source: Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren

“When I ask, “How are you?” that is really what I want to know. I am not asking how many items are on your to-do list, nor asking how many items are in your inbox. I want to know how your heart is doing, at this very moment. Tell me. Tell me your heart is joyous, tell me your heart is aching, tell me your heart is sad, tell me your heart craves a human touch. Examine your own heart, explore your soul, and then tell me something about your heart and your soul.”

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Author:Omid Safi

“The Supreme Court has ruled that anybody can be strip-searched for any kind of arrest. That's something to think about the next time you bring 12 items into a 10-item-or-less lane.”

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Author:Jay Leno

“In spite of the poor economy, almost 70 percent of Americans occasionally splurge on luxury items -- like a blanket on a plane, or a peanut.”

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Author:Jay Leno

“In my actual imaginative contact with life, I am vastly more responsive to beauty than to horror - indeed, I never experience real cosmic horror except in infrequent nightmares. However, when I come to record my various imaginative experiences, I generally find that only the horror items have any uniqueness or originality. Others have seen the same beautiful things that I have seen, & have sung them more nobly.”

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Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“Complex organisms cannot be construed as the sum of their genes, nor do genes alone build particular items of anatomy or behavior by themselves. Most genes influence several aspects of anatomy and behavior as they operate through complex interactions with other genes and their products, and with environmental factors both within and outside the developing organism. We fall into a deep error, not just a harmful oversimplification, when we speak of genes "for" particular items of anatomy or behavior.”

“It would be hard to find a single example in history in which a group that cast more than 50 percent of the vote got away with calling itself the victim... Women are the only 'oppressed' group to share the same parents as the 'oppressor'; to be born into the middle class and upper class as frequently as the 'oppressor'; to own more of the culture's luxury items than the 'oppressor'.”

Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

“A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare.”

Feet Soldier Wheels Warfare Items Neglected

Author:Leon Uris

“Freedom and whores are the most cosmopolitan items under the sun.”

Sun Items

Author:Georg Buchner

“One more item for the delusional Miss Grundys still obtusely citing Reagan as their model of “niceness”: As governor of California, Reagan gave student protesters at Berkeley the finger. Remember that next time you ask yourself: “What would Reagan do?” People who are afraid of ideas whitewash Reagan like they whitewash Jesus. Sorry to break it to you, but the Reagan era did not consist of eight years of Reagan joking about his naps.”

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Author:Ann Coulter

“Know what makes a sentence more than a random list, practice constructing sentences and explaining what you have done, and you will know how to make sentences forever and you will know too when what you are writing doesn't make the grade because it has degenerated into a mere pile of discrete items.”

Knows Writing Done Practice Know How Forever Mere Sentences Lists Grades Items Explaining Discrete

Author:Stanley Fish

“The purchase of any item which helps strengthen Zionism is not permissible.”

Helping Items Zionism

Author:Ali Khamenei

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