Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Every object, every being...is a jar full of delight."
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Jars
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Ramakrishna
Spiritual Leader
"Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water. There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The 'I' is the jar."
Gautama Buddha
Spiritual Teacher
"Do not disregard the accumulation of goodness, saying, 'This will come to nothing.' By the gradual falling of raindrops, a jar is filled."
Pablo Neruda
Poet, Diplomat
"Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar."
Allen West
Politician
"I find it hilarious when Obama's hand gets caught in the cookie jar"
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"Drink from the presence of saints, not from those other jars."
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"I don't know when pepper mills in a restaurant got to be right behind frankincense and myrrh in prominence. It used to be in a little jar that sat next to the salt on the table and everyone passed it around, sneezed, and it was no big deal."
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"One night, in his cups, he drank a jar of wildfire, after telling his friends it would transform him into a dragon, but the gods were kind and it transformed him into a corpse."
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"It is quite common to hear high officials in Washington and elsewhere speak of changing the map of the Middle East, as if ancient societies and myriad peoples can be shaken up like so many peanuts in a jar."
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"If I had done everything I'm credited with, I'd be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard."
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"The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from the fancy jar-gonmongers, idle game players, fashionable coteries for second-rate intellectuals."
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"If it doesn't have siamese twins in a jar, it is not a fair."
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"Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous."
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"Sometimes at drive-thrus I go into Winnie the Pooh and ask for a jar of honey."
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"A society that feels life is the most precious thing [jars against] a society that prefers death over theft, over loss of pride, over inconvenience, and so much else."
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"The first thing we looked at, in what case were people more likely to be attracted to the jar or jam, so in which case are people more likely to stop when they saw the display of jams and what we found was that more people stopped when there were 24 jams."
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"there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars."
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"It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity."
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"[I spent] much of my time reminding Matt Groening that I really need to be a head in a jar on Futurama."
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"If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar."
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