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• More and more products are coming out in fiercely protective packaging designed to prevent consumers from consuming them. These days you have to open almost every consumer item by gnawing on the packaging.

  Dave Barry

  Packaging, Coming Out, These Days

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.43, Ballantine Books

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• What is eternity? You're on the checkout line at a supermarket. There are seven people in front of you. They are all old. They all have two carts and coupons for every item. They are all paying by check. None of them have ID. It's the checkout girl's first day on the job. She doesn't speak any English. Take away fifteen minutes from that, and you begin to get an idea of what eternity is.

  Emo Philips

  Girl, Jobs, Ideas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I went into designing my house thinking I could have some more expensive items because I didn't realize my kids were going to be animals.

  Nicole Polizzi

  Kids, Animal, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The purchase of any item which helps strengthen Zionism is not permissible.

  Ali Khamenei

  Helping, Zionism

  "Does Boycotting Israel Work?" by Samir Al-Haidari, www.aimislam.com. August 13, 2014.

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• Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector's item.

  Isaac Marion

  Priceless, Collectors

  Simon & Schuster Interview, www.simonandschuster.com.

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• A mind unwilling to believe or even undesirous to be instructed, our weightiest evidence must ever fail to impress. It will insist on taking that evidence in bits and rejecting item by item. As all the facts come singly, anyone who dismisses them one by one is destroying the condition under which the conviction of a new truth could ever arise in the mind.

  F. C. S. Schiller

  Believe, Mind, Facts

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• Theory is taught so as to make the student believe that he or she can become a Marxist, a feminist, an Afrocentrist, or a deconstructionist with about the same effort and commitment required in choosing items from a menu.

  Edward Said

  Believe, Commitment, Feminist

  Edward W Said (2014). “Culture And Imperialism”, p.389, Random House

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• Dogs need to sniff the ground; it's how they keep abreast of current events. The ground is a giant dog newspaper, containing all kinds of late-breaking dog news items, which, if they are especially urgent, are often continued in the next yard.

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Yards, Events

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.120, Crown Archetype

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• A handkerchief can never be put in another pocket after it has been in one pocket. I don't walk under ladders. I have items of clothing that are lucky for me. That rotates, but I am luck-oriented.

  Rachel Maddow

  Luck, Pockets, Ladders

  "A Pundit in the Country". Interview with Edward Lewine, www.nytimes.com. October 17, 2008.

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• It from bit symbolizes the idea that every item of the physical world has at bottom...an immaterial source and explanation...that all things physical are information-theoretic in origin and that this is a participatory universe.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Ideas, World, Information

  "Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information" edited by Wojciech H. Zurek, (p. 5), 1990.

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• We'll get a chance to go through this [Apple versus Microsoft debate] again in phones and music players. There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It's a $500 subsidized item. They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I'd prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, than I would to have 2% or 3%, which is what Apple might get.

  Steve Ballmer

  Player, Apples, Iphone

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• If the government is to try and ban private consumption of alcohol and tobacco, it must surely ban such activities as hang-gliding, skiing, rock-climbing and so on. Where should it stop? Rugby? American Football? Ice Hockey?
  Insofar as the government has information not generally available about the merits or demerits of the items we ingest or the activities we engage in, let it give us the information. But let it leave us free to choose what chances we want to take with our own lives.

  Milton Friedman

  Football, Hockey, Rocks

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• Cathode-ray tubes are the most important items in a television receiver.

  John Logie Baird

  Important, Rays, Television

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• Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet, conditions of life, temperature, entertainment, sex, and so forth - are never such that more of the something is always better than less of the something. Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.

  Gregory Bateson

  Sex, Fall, Simplicity

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• Just as the commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we also have to say 'thou shalt not' to an economy of exclusion and inequality. Such an economy kills. How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points?

  Pope Francis

  Elderly, Order, Two

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.21, BookBaby

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• Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time

  Paul Muldoon

  Song, Average, Years

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• I'm real excited about being on CBS and hosting this show. I have been studying all of the great CBS shows. I think I'm prepared, so if you're ready, let's have the first item up for bids.

  Ray Combs

  Real, Thinking, Firsts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Then came the gadgeteer, otherwise known as the sporting-goods dealer. He has draped the American outdoorsman with an infinity of contraptions, all offered as aids to self-reliance, hardihood, woodcraft, or marksmanship, but too often functioning as substitutes for them. Gadgets fill the pockets, they dangle from neck and belt. The overflow fills the auto-trunk and also the trailer. Each item of outdoor equipment grows lighter and often better, but the aggregate poundage becomes tonnage.

  Aldo Leopold

  Self, Pockets, Gadgets

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.180, Oxford University Press, USA

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• At Thanksgiving, my mom always makes too much food, especially one item, like 700 or 800 pounds of sweet potatoes. She's got to push it during the meal. "Did you get some sweet potatoes? There's sweet potatoes. They're hot. There's more in the oven, some more in the garage. The rest are at the Johnson's."

  Louie Anderson

  Thanksgiving, Mom, Sweet

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• Life is never boring but some people choose to be bored. The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way. Boredom is a choice; something you visit upon yourself, and it is another of those self-defeating items that you can eliminate from your life.

  Wayne Dyer

  Blessing, Self, People

  Wayne W. Dyer (1977). “Your erroneous zones”

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• Humans more easily remember or learn items when they are studied a few times over a long period of time (spaced presentation), rather than studied repeatedly in a short period of time.

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Teaching, Learning, Technology

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• O you who sold yourself for the sake of something that will cause you suffering and pain, and which will also lose its beauty, you sold the most precious item for the cheapest price, as if you neither knew the value of the goods nor the meanness of the prize. Wait until you come on the Day of Mutual Loss and Gain and you will discover the injustice of this contract.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Pain, Islamic, Loss

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• Big Brother is home. He is installed in the item you just dragged home from the Apple store.

  Julian Assange

  Brother, Home, Apples

  Julian Assange (2011). “Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography”, p.81, Canongate Books

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• All these mountains of Irish dead, all these corpses mangled beyond recognition, all these arms, legs, eyes, ears, fingers, toes, hands, all these shivering putrefying bodies and portions of bodies once warm living and tender parts of Irish men and youths - all these horrors in Flanders or the Gallipoli Peninsula, are all items in the price Ireland pays for being part of the British Empire.

  James Connolly

  Eye, Men, Hands

  James Connolly (1988). “Collected Works: Labour and Easter Week”

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• The cares of this life emerge as very small items indeed along our daily path.

  Watchman Nee

  Care, Path, This Life

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.322, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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