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• To plan secretly, to move surreptitiously, to foil the enemy's intentions and balk his schemes, so that at last the day may be won without shedding a drop of blood.

  Sun Tzu

  Moving, Blood, Enemy

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.19, Xist Publishing

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• Gas grills are a no-no. Gas is a petroleum product. Rather than a smokey flavor, it will add a a petroleum-based weird taste into your meat. However, if you already have a gas grill, you can bring in some smoke flavor by tightly rolling wood chips in tin foil really tight and placing them on the top of your burners.

  Johnny Trigg

  Meat, Rolling, Tin

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• Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.

  George Plimpton

  Book, Cycling, Giving

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• Perhaps that's what I feel, an outside and an inside and me in the middle, perhaps that's what I am, the thing that divides the world in two, on the one side the outside, on the other the inside, that can be as thin as foil, I'm neither one side nor the other, I'm in the middle, I'm the partition, I've two surfaces and no thickness, perhaps that's what I feel, myself vibrating, I'm the tympanum, on the one hand the mind, on the other the world, I don't belong to either.

  Samuel Beckett

  Self, Hands, Two

  Samuel Beckett (1970). “The collected works of Samuel Beckett”

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• If you just live in New York and you only know New York, you know a certain kind of condition of formality and informality. By being able to go to another context and to be able to use that as a counter foil to the context you know, you are about to see a wider range.

  David Adjaye

  New York, Able, Use

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Barack Obama was better as a campaigner than as a - as a president sometimes in this same position. It is easier when you have a foil.

  Chuck Todd

  President, Sometimes, Easier

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• A competitor is a valuable foil that unites a company from within and pushes the brand's boundaries.

  Martin Lindstrom

  Boundaries, Valuable, Company

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I think the Democrat attitude is, "You know, we've toyed with you people for all these years, and we've been faking you out. We've been making it look like we want you in our club, but we really don't. We don't want... You're nothing but a bunch of foils, and we don't need you anymore, and we're just gonna wipe you out".

  Rush Limbaugh

  Attitude, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• [Vincent Price] had a fish recipe where he wrapped [the fish] in aluminum foil and put in these herbs. And then you put it in the dishwasher and then you wash your dishes, and when you're done, your fish is steamed and it's perfect. But he was very sophisticated as far as art and food and all of that went.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Art, Perfect, Done

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I can't fool myself into thinking that musically I don't need other people, whether it's as a foil or just to come in and make real the ideas that are kind of vague and wispy in my head.

  Dan Bejar

  Real, Thinking, Ideas

  "Destroyer. Pornographer. Bejar". Interview with Phil Runco, brightestyoungthings.com. June 12, 2012.

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• The reality is [Donald] Trump is just better at this game than they are. Blaming the media may be a convenient foil, but the reality is, he`s played the free media game better than they have. He has used the personal attack meme against them and literally created memes about them. They need to figure out how to play this game.

  Chris Hayes

  Reality, Media, Games

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• First, my frame of reference for the Britten opera shifted. I'd always thought of Britten's approach in Death in Venice as another exploration of the plight of the individual whose aspirations are at odds with those of the surrounding community: his last opera returning to the themes of Peter Grimes. As I read and listened and thought, however, Billy Budd came to seem a more appropriate foil for Death in Venice.

  Philip Kitcher

  Odds, Venice, Community

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I made a tin man costume with tin foil and furnace parts because I thought it would help me be more heartless.

  Marcel Dzama

  Men, Heartless, Tin

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Women are foils to men in South Korea. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance. Men think women should do trivial things on the margins. They think women should be merely a seasoning for a dish. I feel anger and sorrow seeing this.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Men, Thinking, Korea

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253.

  Peter King

  Needs, Done, Flight

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• Women are foils to men. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Men, Political, Roles

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Where's my tax form? Where's the file that's supposed to hold my W-2 form and interest statement? Where's the mileage log I specifically asked be kept last year?? Where's the monthly check summary? And who's been stuffing Visa receipts in the aluminum foil drawer??!! How embarrassing. I'm surrounded by idiots and I'm the only one in the office.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Years, Office, Aluminum Foil

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• The masses are only to be regarded as one of three things: either as copies of great personalities, bad copies, clumsily produced in a poor material, or as foils to the great, or finally as their tools

  Georg Brandes

  Personality, Three, Tools

  Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.11, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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• The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Fighting, Warrior

  William Shakespeare (1881). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: With a Life of the Poet, Explanatory Foot-notes, Critical Notes, and a Glossarial Index”

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• I dont have aluminum foil on my windows anymore.

  Rick James

  Aluminum Foil, Aluminum, Window

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• Cooking Tip: Wrap turkey leftovers in aluminum foil and throw them out.

  Nicole Hollander

  Food, Funny Thanksgiving, Turkeys

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• A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in. A minute to smile and an hour to weep in. A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double. And that is life. A crust and a corner that makes love precious, With a smile to warm and tears to refresh us, And joy seems sweeter when cares come after, And a moan is the finest of foils for laughter. And that is life.

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Laughter, Sleep, Laughing

  Paul Laurence Dunbar, Joanne M. Braxton (1993). “The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar”, p.8, University of Virginia Press

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• If I want to walk out in the desert and heat up a can of beans on a fire, I still can. In those movies like Gattaca or whatever, the space age stuff is always all there is. But in the world there is never just one way of living. It's more like a big junkyard. Put it this way: I'm not afraid I'm going to end up on a space station in aluminium-foil underwear.

  Tom Waits

  Fire, Space, Age

  "Tom Waits: 'I look like hell but I'm going to see where it gets me'". Interview With Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2011.

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• My mother won't admit it, but I've always been a disappointment to her. Deep down inside, she'll never forgive herself for giving birth to a daughter who refuses to launder aluminium foil and use it over again.

  Erma Bombeck

  Daughter, Mother, Disappointment

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• I'm so not interesting in having to try and make something out of foil." What, you didn't like the poncho with wraparound leggings?" It was beyond hideou- wait a minute. You watch that show?" My mom loves it." But your suppose to be sulking in the basement getting ready to light fires." What can I say? I'm a failure as a teenager. I watch TV with my mom.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Mom, Teenager, Fire

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