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• We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European countryside. But since then we've smoked it up and littered it and dumped too much in too many waters. I don't think it's our privilege to behave this way.

  Lewis Thomas

  Thinking, Water, Privilege

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• You know, when you've been dumped, the one thing you love to do is just forget about this human being, and then go on with your life - but no, you just love them harder.

  Helen Fisher

  Goes On, Forget, Things You Love

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• For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone. I have to wash out and flatten my soup cans. And account for every drop of used motor oil. And I have to foot the bill for nuclear waste and buried gasoline tanks and landfilled toxic sludge dumped a generation before I was born.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Motor Oil, Years, Feet

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.124, W. W. Norton & Company

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• That’s the tricky thing about love. It walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and smells like a duck. But after you sleep with it a month or so, or get dumped at the altar by it, it starts smelling more like a skunk.

  C.C. Hunter

  Sleep, Ducks, Smell

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• Biography is the medium through which the remaining secrets of the famous dead are taken from them and dumped out in full view of the world. The biographer at work, indeed, is like the professional burglar, breaking into a house, rifling through certain drawers that he has good reason to think contain the jewelry and money, and triumphantly bearing his loot away.

  Janet Malcolm

  Taken, Thinking, Views

  Janet Malcolm (2011). “Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes”, p.12, Granta Books

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• I'm quite happy with the music carrying on. I've never been one to clamor for fame. It just got dumped in my lap. The ambition is definitely not fame. The ambition is to be creative.

  Bryan Adams

  Ambition, Creative, Lap

  "QA: Bryan Adams has shot Michael Jackson and Lindsay Lohan, says his daughter his best subject". Q&A with Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. December 11, 2012.

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• I have a Keurig coffee maker, which is really kind of a luxury. It was given to me by an ex. I realized when I'm feeling sentimental, I'll gently, tenderly press the button. Then when I remember he dumped me, I punch it.

  Mo Rocca

  Coffee, Luxury, Feelings

  "What Comedian Mo Rocca Eats For Breakfast" by Julia Bainbridge, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 31, 2012.

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• After the urine is collected over a couple of days, it's dumped into space, which is beautiful to watch because the urine freezes into a glitter of ice crystals shimmering in the sun.

  Mike Mullane

  Beautiful, Couple, Ice

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• Our children are exposed to 10, 20, 30 times the number of words that our great-grandfathers were exposed to. We're exposed in a single day or two to more horror on our Internet Web pages than our great-grandfathers were exposed to in decades of living. We have not created modern minds for that modern world. Science and technology has just dumped it on us. And I think people yearn for it. I think you see it in what's popular. Why are people wanting to learn about meditation and talking about a purpose-driven life? It's because they know more is needed in the modern world.

  Steven C. Hayes

  Children, Technology, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I like the dry-cleaners. I like the sense of refreshment and renewal. I like the way dirty old torn clothes are dumped, to be returned clean and wholesome in their slippery transparent cases. Better than confesssion any day. Here there is a true sense of rebirth, redemption, salvation.

  Fay Weldon

  Dirty, Clothes, Redemption

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• If you were ever dumped after knitting a guy a sweater, consider the possibility that the problem was with the sweater, not you. The recipient probably took one look at the thing, imagined a lifetime of having to pretend to like (and wear) this sweater and others of its like, and saw no choice but to flee into the night

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Night, Knitting, Sweaters

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• Dating is so insecure. My last relationship, I was always there for her and she dumped me. I told her about it. I said, "Remember when your grandma died? I was there. Remember when you flunked out of school? I was there. Remember when you lost your job? I was there!" She said, "I know

  Tom Arnold

  Jobs, Grandma, School

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• Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Stupid, Intelligent, Medicine

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• We need a new way of doing business to get out of the present crisis ... Absolute greed has come close to bankrupting the world. Thanks to the crisis that certain businesses have dumped on everyone a lot of people are going to suffer on a global scale. All of us must learn. It is all the more important that those business leaders that are left standing try to be a force for good.

  Richard Branson

  People, Greed, Leader

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• Everybody's in love when they're eighteen. And everybody gets dumped.

  Susan Wiggs

  Eighteen

  Susan Wiggs (2015). “Summer by the Sea”, p.33, MIRA

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• The first time I passed through the country (Switzerland) I had the impression it was swept down with a broom from one end to the other every morning by housewives who dumped all the dirt in Italy.

  Ernesto Sabato

  Funny, Country, Morning

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• Next time you see an unblemished expanse of grass, think about the chemicals that probably got dumped in your vicinity to create it. Are you grateful for that?

  Robert Wright

  Nature, Grateful, Thinking

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• I'm not keen on cars and motorbikes. I tried to be a biker, but it wasn't me - I bought a Harley-Davidson and dumped it.

  Colin Farrell

  Car, Bikers, Harley

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• I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Insecure, Being Real, Feelings

  "Love And Rockets' Hernandez brothers on 30 years in comics". Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2012.

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• If you are the one who is dumped, then you feel like your life is over.

  Alex Kingston

  Life Is, Like You, Feels

  "Intensive care" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. July 07, 2002.

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• I've always said I can't tell sometimes that people even have an album out until I see them nominated for a Grammy. I think country gets dumped on across the board by the Grammys.

  Toby Keith

  Country, Thinking, People

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• Keep winning and get to the postseason, I won 20 games and they just dumped one beer on my head. It feels good because I'm helping my team win.

  Dontrelle Willis

  Team, Beer, Winning

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• Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.

  Budd Schulberg

  Fighting, Dozen, Way

  Budd Schulberg (2012). “Sparring with Hemingway: And Other Legends of the Fight Game”, p.287, Open Road Media

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• Who do you think our champion will be today? Have you seen Mace Tyrell's boy? The Knight of Flowers, they call him. Now there's a son any man would be proud to own to. Last tourney, he dumped the Kingslayer on his golden rump, you ought to have seen the look on Cersei's face. I laughed till my sides hurt.

  George R. R. Martin

  Hurt, Flower, Son

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.267, Bantam

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• And why had Deb's last boyfriend dumped her? I dumped him. Maybe you didn't French-kiss him enough. I promise you that wasn't it. Tell me how many times a day you kissed, and I'll say if it was enough. Four hundred. Not enough.

  Miranda July

  Kissing, Promise, Dumped Her

  Miranda July (2007). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, Simon and Schuster

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