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All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
Mae West
Somebody
Second Chance
Else
Given
Discarded
Lovers
Should
Second
Chance
Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.
Paulo Coelho
Beautiful
Human Being
Simplicity
Will
Has-Been
Superfluous
Posture
More
Simpler
Concentration
Discarded
Been
Discovers
Human
Achieved
Being
Sober
Elegance
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Life
Truth
Thoughts
Man
Own
Clothes
Meal
Others
Else
Someone
Only
Remains
He
Taking
Putting
Like
Discarded
Read
Understands
Them
Really
Stranger
Fundamental
There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced by 'the scientific method.
Max Born
Believe
Incredible
Types
Those
Must
Objectionable
Discarded
Scientific
Scientific Method
Method
Replaced
Who
Belief
Believers
Two
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Benjamin Franklin
Time
Good
Year
Worst
Habit
Discarded
Make
Vicious
Might
Us
Each
Each Year
How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.
Claude Debussy
Feeling
Naked
Before
Reaching
Discarded
How
How Much
Much
Explored
Flesh
No idea should be discarded completely, but - as one might imagine - it does take a degree of ingenuity to find a new spin on something as hackneyed as the 'Adam and Eve' story. But if you think you've got the chops for it, there's no reason not to try.
Alastair Reynolds
You
Try
Degree
Think
Find
Spin
No Idea
Something
No Reason
Take
Idea
New
Discarded
Does
Got
Story
Might
Ingenuity
Should
Reason
Chops
Eve
Adam
Adam And Eve
Imagine
In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded.
Amy Irving
Few
Older
Exceptions
Simply
Discarded
Very
Than
Actress
Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
Barbara Jordan
Political
Country
Guiding
About
Indigenous
Idea
Discarded
Principles
Understand
American
Represent
Cannot
Which
Short-Term
Gains
Within HTC, hundreds of ideas are tested and discarded to find those rare ideas that define the HTC user experience.
Cher Wang
Experience
Rare
Hundreds
Define
Those
Find
Ideas
Discarded
Within
Tested
User
Over the course of those 12 episodes we discarded what didn't work and kept what did and that refined it.
Dave Rowntree
Work
Those
Over
Discarded
Course
Refined
Did
Episodes
Kept
Calling a book 'young adult' is only important in that it can help get a book to the right reader. After that, it's a useless abstraction and should be discarded.
Eliot Schrefer
Book
Important
Young
Only
Adult
Abstraction
Discarded
Calling
Reader
Get
Young Adult
After
Should
Help
Useless
Right
The ministers of Christ should possess refinement. All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves humble dignity of bearing.
Ellen G. White
Dignity
Humble
Christ
Manners
Possess
Ministers
Bearing
Uncouth
Attitudes
Discarded
Encourage
Refinement
Gestures
Themselves
Should
For 'Thunderstruck', I discarded about a dozen ideas. And then one afternoon, I was thinking about wireless. I don't know why. I guess because it's become so ubiquitous. I was thinking that maybe there's something I could do about the origin of wireless, so I did what any self-respecting person does these days: I Googled 'wireless.'
Erik Larson
Become
Thinking
Guess
About
Something
Could
Wireless
Days
Ideas
Know
Discarded
Because
Does
Person
Did
Any
Maybe
Afternoon
Then
Origin
Why
Dozen
Our myopic focus on producing and consuming as cheaply as possible has created a linear economy in which objects are briefly used and then discarded as waste.
Frans van Houten
Focus
Our
Possible
Objects
Myopic
Consuming
Cheaply
Economy
Discarded
Linear
Which
Then
Created
Producing
Used
Waste
Something interesting has happened over the last 10 years in the Premier League. Players who once would have been discarded as expensive and too old have become important parts of title-winning squads.
Gary Neville
Old
Important
Become
Too
Once
Would
Something
Over
League
Discarded
Parts
Important Parts
Been
Years
Squads
Expensive
Happened
Interesting
Premier
Premier League
Who
Players
Last
Cheap electronics are not built to be repaired. They're just used and then discarded.
Johann Johannsson
Cheap
Discarded
Built
Just
Then
Used
Electronics
If you're a movie star, there's a cycle you go through: adoration, adulation, you're used, and then you're discarded. And it happens again and again, always in that sequence.
John Cusack
You
Adoration
Through
Adulation
Discarded
Always
Go
Movie
Happens
Movie Star
Again
Then
Cycle
Used
Sequence
Star
Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Will
Power
Assumed
Something
Like
Discarded
Underwear
It is reasonable to think that the more readers put into the Bible app in the form of small investments, the more it becomes a repository of their history of worship. Like a worn dog-eared book, full of scribbled insights and wisdom, the app becomes a treasured asset not easily discarded.
Nir Eyal
Wisdom
History
Bible
Book
Think
Worn
Worship
Easily
Insights
More
Small
Put
Investments
Like
Discarded
Readers
Becomes
Repository
Form
Full
App
Reasonable
Asset
Treasured
It was at a big swap meet that I discovered you could buy other people's old discarded family photos and vacation pictures for pretty cheap - a quarter, 50 cents, five bucks for a really nice one.
Ransom Riggs
Buy
Family
You
People
Old
Big
Nice
Other
Meet
Photos
Pretty
Could
Cheap
Bucks
Pictures
Discarded
Quarter
Discovered
Five
Swap
Cents
Really
Vacation
Someone asked me who I would be if I were a character in the 'Wizard of Oz.' I would be the curtain. I would be the one who saw both sides that nobody noticed, that was pretty and there to be used and discarded when they were done.
Rose McGowan
Character
Me
Sides
Saw
Would
Would-Be
Pretty
Someone
Both
Both Sides
Nobody
Discarded
Wizard
Wizard Of Oz
Were
Done
Oz
Curtain
Asked
Noticed
Used
Who
A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement.
Trent Lott
Truth
Words
Offended
Past
Nothing
Statement
Further
Embrace
Some
Could
Discarded
Policies
Impression
Anyone
Poor
Conveyed
Choice
Apologize
Who
So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies.
Will Self
Phones
Become
Own
Second-Hand
Our
Invariably
Come
Discarded
Mobile
Mobile Phones
Now
Card
Image
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