"Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality."
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"To a hungry man, a piece of bread is the face of God."
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"I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room."
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"I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw them out the window in disgust."
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"God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that He foresees, purposes, and does all things according to His immutable, eternal, and infallible will. By this thunderbolt, "Free-will" is thrown prostrate, and utterly dashed to pieces."
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"I am not a piece of hash. I'm in charge of Factory Records. I think."
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"So after Another You I ran off to my very own piece of paradise, my home in Hana."
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"Nothing in this world happens without a reason. That we are all exactly where we are supposed to be, and that the pieces of the puzzle have a tendency to come together when you least expect it."
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"I don't think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing."
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"The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece."
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"Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces."
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"You should only play pieces that you're willing to marry."
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"It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world."
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"In one-act pieces there should be only rubbish - that is their strength."
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"Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish."
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"After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather."
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"Most of what has been written about me is one big blur, but I do remember being described in one simple word that I agree with. It was in a piece that tore me apart for my personal behavior, but the writer said that when the music began and I started to sing, I was "honest.""
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"We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good fortune, for if we had not been expelled, Paradise would have had to be destroyed."
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"The tremendous world I have inside my head. But how free myself and free it without being torn to pieces. And a thousand times rather be torn to pieces than retain it in me or bury it. That, indeed, is why I am here, that is quite clear to me."
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"What's fascinating . . .is that you could now have a business that might have been selling for $10 billion where the business itself could probably not have borrowed even $100 million. But the owners of that business, because its public, could borrow many billions of dollars on their little pieces of paper- because they had these market valuations. But as a private business, the company itself couldn't borrow even 1/20th of what the individuals could borrow."
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