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• It’s up to you to fill it. Find things that mean something to you, that represent times where you’ve overcome an obstacle, learned something important. Put those items in the bag and they’ll help you find your strength.’ ‘I’m not sure if that’s going to help much.’ Unless I put a brick in it and nail Brandy between the eyes.

  Jana Oliver

  Mean, Eye, Important

  Jana Oliver (2013). “Demon Trappers 1-3: Forsaken, Forbidden, Forgiven”, p.207, Pan Macmillan

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• There is such solace in the mere sight of water. It clothes us delicately in its blowing salt and scent, gossamer items that medicate the poor soul

  Sebastian Barry

  Sight, Clothes, Water

  Sebastian Barry (2011). “On Canaan's Side”, p.25, Faber & Faber

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• It's the silliness--the profligacy, and the silliness--that's so dizzying: a seven-year-old will run downstairs, kiss you hard, and then run back upstairs again, all in less than 30 seconds. It's as urgent an item on their daily agenda as eating or singing. It's like being mugged by Cupid.

  Caitlin Moran

  Running, Kissing, Years

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• The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness. Better to live a life of single-pointed focus, he taught. But what about the benefits of living harmoniously among extremes? What if you could somehow create an expansive enough life that you could synchronize seemingly incongruous opposites into a worldview that excludes nothing?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Writing, Opposites, Focus

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.30, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• We did make use, from time to time, of candles, neckties, scarves, shoelaces, a little water-color paintbrush, her hairbrush, butter, whipped cream, strawberry jam, Johnson’s Baby Oil, my Swedish hand vibrator, a fascinating bead necklace she had, miscellaneous common household items, and every molecule of flesh that was exposed to air or could be located with strenuous search.

  Spider Robinson

  Baby, Air, Hands

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• Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Science, Hands, Probability Theory

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.19, Univ of California Press

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• It is impossible to encircle the hips of a girl with my right arm and hold her smile in my left hand, then proceed to study the two items separately. Similarly, we can not separate life from living matter, in order to study only living matter and its reactions. Inevitably, studying living matter and its reactions, we study life itself

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Life, Girl, Hands

  "Nature of Life: A Study on Muscle". Book by Albert Szent-Györgyi, 1948.

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• Throughout all of human history slaves have been expensive capital purchase items. And today they're disposal inputs like styrofoam cups to an economic process.

  Kevin Bales

  Styrofoam, Input, Today

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. September 24, 2010.

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• Globally, proving myself working well with Adidas, showing my work could be globally distributed and loved and appreciated and still be challenging. Maybe I'm one of the first people on a larger scale to make more challenging and more unique items.

  Jeremy Scott

  Unique, People, Challenges

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The great people of the earth today are the people who pray. I do not mean those who talk about prayer, nor those who say they believe in prayer, nor yet those who can explain about prayer; but I mean these people who take time and pray. They have not time. It must be taken from something else. This something else is important, very important, and pressing, but still less important and less pressing than prayer. There are people that put prayer first, and group the other items in life's schedule around and after prayer.

  S. D Gordon

  Prayer, Believe, Taken

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• Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.

  Dave Barry

  Witty, Powerful, Reality

  "How Do You Light a Fart?: And 150 Other Essential Things Every Guy Should Know about Science". Book by Bobby Mercer, 2009.

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• Foods to eliminate or minimize include items that are canned, frozen, microwaved, or highly processed. Focus on eating a variety of fresh and freshly-prepared food.

  Deepak Chopra

  Focus, Frozen, Eating

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• I don't know why you'd go to a comedian and say, "You know what? You have a large menu of items, but this one thing I did not like and therefore, you should be shut down. You should cease to make a living and you should be thrown out in the streets."

  Brad Williams

  Comedian, Should, Menus

  "Interview with comedian Brad Williams". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• We act in a pragmatic and careful manner. We reduce spending on budget items that do not constitute a priority.

  Vladimir Putin

  Priorities, Spending, Careful

  Source: thesaker.is

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• I'm not out there picking out every single item that we sell, and also we don't even make every single item that we sell.

  Sophia Amoruso

  Sells

  "#GirlBoss Sophia Amoruso on Her New Book, Nasty Galaxy". Interview with Maddy Budd, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 13, 2016.

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• But love, honest love, requires empathy. It is a sharing—of joy, of pain, of laughter, and of tears. Honest love makes one’s soul a reflection of the partner’s moods. And as a room seems larger when it is lined with mirrors, so do the joys become amplified. And as the individual items within the mirrored room seem less acute, so does pain diminish and fade, stretched thin by the sharing. That is the beauty of love, whether in passion or friendship. A sharing that multiplies the joys and thins the pains.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Laughter, Pain, Passion

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• The peace of mind, is very essential for our health. So in that level, I think scientific finding, immense benefit to get our wellness and eventually conviction, peace of mind is not just a luxurious item, but peace of mind is actually very important for our survival, for our healthy survival.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Healthy, Survival

  Source: www.kpbs.org

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• Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.

  Sherwood Smith

  Hurt, Gossip, Stories

  "Crown Duel". Book by Sherwood Smith, 1997.

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• I like black for clothes, small items, and jewelry. It's a color that can't be violated by any other colors. A color that simply keeps being itself. A color that sinks more somberly than any other color, yet asserts itself more than all other colors. It's a passionate gallant color. Anything is wonderful if it transcends things rather than being halfway.

  Yana Toboso

  Color, Clothes, Black

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• Would you like to cross another item off this list today?" "I should like that very much. Which do you propose?" "I think it's time to try riding astride". "You can't mean..." "Oh, but I do, indeed, mean, Empress.

  Sarah MacLean

  Mean, Thinking, Trying

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• That's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone. This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.

  Aimee Bender

  Burgers, Littles, Handmade

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• An item that looks perfectly normal on the surface might only be disguised.

  Jodi Picoult

  Perfectly Normal, Looks, Might

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• It would have been funny if I had been an observer and not a participant, an idea that gave me a disconcerting insight into gossip. As I walked beside the silent Tamara, I realized that despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.

  Sherwood Smith

  Hurt, Ideas, Gossip

  "Crown Duel". Book by Sherwood Smith, 1997.

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• Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. This moment a million times over. You have to trust me. If this moment is repeated enough, if you keep trying — and you have to keep trying — eventually you will come across the next item on your list.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Over You, Trying, Matter

  "Memento Mori". Short story by Jonathan Nolan, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• His entired life bundled into wenty refuse sacks. His and her memories bundle away in Holly's mind. Each item unearthed dust, tears, laughter and memories. She bagged the items, cleared the dust, wiped her eyes and filed away the memories.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Laughter, Memories, Eye

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