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• So I went down the local supermarket, I said "I want to make a complaint, this vinegar's got lumps in it", he said "Those are pickled onions".

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Humor, Want

  Tim Vine (2012). “The (Not Quite) Biggest Ever Tim Vine Joke Book: Children's Edition”, p.110, Random House

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• You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.

  Anne Lamott

  Personality, Clay, Spirit

  Anne Lamott's Commencement Address at University of California in Berkeley, California, www.salon.com. July 6, 2003.

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• I have never yet met a successful person who hasn't had to overcome either a little or a lot of adversity in his or her life. If life there is a lot of lumps and bumps... a lot of throttling up and a lot of throttling down.

  Harvey Mackay

  Adversity, Successful, Overcoming

  "Harvey Mackay Book Interview : The Mackay MBA of selling in the real world". Interview with David Dalka, www.daviddalka.com. November 29, 2011.

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• Aside from a couple of signature flourishes, there's nothing to mark Paycheck as the product of acclaimed action director John Woo. In fact, there's little about this movie that makes it worth anyone's time and money. With a script that waffles between being hilariously absurd and insultingly stupid, and action scenes that won't cause anyone's pulse to skip a beat, Paycheck is less appealing than a lump of coal in a Christmas stocking.

  James Berardinelli

  Couple, Stupid, Signatures

  "Paycheck (2003)". A movie review at www.reelviews.net, 2003.

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• Looking for a gem, we are sometimes dumb enough to try to hold on to a lump of coal, convinced that it will turn into a diamond in our lifetime... but all it does it get sh*t all over you until you burn it and use the energy for something else.

  Ingrid Weir

  Over You, Dumb, Trying

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• You can't make a sculpture until you've got a lump of rock.

  Eran Creevy

  Rocks, Sculpture

  Source: collider.com

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• Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?

  William Golding

  Philosophy, Blow, Wind

  William Golding (1980). “Rites of Passage”

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• We each deal with childhood in different ways. That brothers and sisters can take the same lump of clay that is childhood and use it to shape themselves into unique human beings is a miracle in itself. Despite individual struggles, triumphs, joys and disappointments, someone is made of the same stuff and has been at your side, whether figuratively or literally, from the beginning. Use our brother and sister quote collection to explore this truth and gain compassionate understanding for yourself and your siblings.

  Laura Ramirez

  Sister, Brother, Disappointment

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• We lump together all things that are beyond the capacity of all of us collectively to understand-and one name we give to all those things together is God. Therefore, God is the creative force, the sustaining power, that which motivates toward constant change, the overall intelligence which governs the universe by physical and spiritual law, truth, love, goodness, kindness, beauty, the ever-present, all-pervading essence or spirit, which binds everything in the universe together and gives to everything in the universe.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Kindness, Law

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.140, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Writing, for me, is a little like wood carving. You find the lump of tree (the big central theme that gets you started), and you start cutting the shape that you think you want it to be. But you find, if you do it right, that the wood has a grain of its own (characters develop and present new insights, concentrated thinking about the story opens new avenues). If you're sensible, you work with the grain and, if you come across a knot hole, you incorporate that into the design. This is not the same as 'making it up as you go along'; it's a very careful process of control.

  Terry Pratchett

  Character, Writing, Cutting

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• The more natural the charcoal, the better your food will taste. Rather than briquettes, use lump charcoal, which is is all-natural. Lump charcoal will cause your grill to get much hotter than briquettes. Also, briquettes have chemical filler which holds saw dust together and can change the taste of the food.

  Johnny Trigg

  Dust, Together, Use

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• Administrators tend to lump Asians in Chicago into one group, not understanding that these kids would be fighting each other, the Cambodians and the Vietnamese. We started a thing called cultural gift sharing, where everyone comes and says what his culture is, so the teachers and the administrators could understand they are different.

  Malik Yusef

  Teacher, Kids, Fighting

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• A real yogin...does not see the difference between a lump of dirt and a lump of gold

  Steve Ilg

  Real, Differences, Gold

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• A lump in the throat is worth two on the head.

  Walt Kelly

  Two, Throat, Lump In The Throat

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• The capitalist system of coordination by trade seems to be largely populated by indigestible lumps of socialism called corporations

  Kevin Carson

  Corporations, Socialism, Coordination

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• But most weeks I've gone through 12 books, maybe even 15 some weeks, depending on the length. So I go through my long form, and then my day begins. I usually try to do most of my writing earlier in the day because I sort of lump out later on.

  Maria Popova

  Book, Writing, Long

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The Apollo pictures of the whole Earth conveyed to multitudes something well known to astronomers: On the scale of the worlds - to say nothing of stars or galaxies - humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump of rock and metal

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Rocks, Apollo

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.25, Ballantine Books

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• A guy walks into a pub with a lump of asphalt on His shoulder, He says to the bar man give us a pint and one for the road.

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• It is the Lord's kindness that he will take the scum off us in the fire. Who know how needful winnowing is to us and what dross we have before we enter the kingdom of God? So narrow is the entry to heaven that our knots, lumps of pride, self-love, idol-love, and world-love must be hammered off us, that we may stoop low and creep through into that narrow entry.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Kindness, Pride, Self

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• As humourless a lump of dough as ever held a torchlight vigil outside the South African Embassy or stuck an AIDS awareness ribbon on an unwilling first-nighter.

  Stephen Fry

  Funny, Humor, Ribbons

  Stephen Fry (1994). “The hippopotamus”, Random House (UK)

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• A good man may fall, but he falls like a ball [and rebounds]; the ignoble man falls like a lump of clay.

  Bhartrhari

  Fall, Men, Good Man

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• When I was a player, I'd have a pre-match meal of the biggest lump of fillet steak you could find, followed by rice pudding. Other times I'd have a steak and kidney pie. I'd finish the meal at 12.30 and be playing two-and-a-half hours later.

  Fabio Capello

  Player, Two, Pie

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• May your stuffing be tasty May your turkey plump, May your potatoes and gravy Have nary a lump. May your yams be delicious And your pies take the prize, And may your Thanksgiving dinner Stay off your thighs!

  Grandpa Jones

  Thanksgiving, Yams, Turkeys

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• If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.

  Jonathan Swift

  Fall, Giving, Cooking

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: With Copious Notes and Additions and a Memoir of the Author”, p.114

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• I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks very prickly, a penalty they earn for knowing the black art of blackberry-making; and as I stand among them lifting the stalks to my mouth, the ripest berries fall almost unbidden to my tongue, as words sometimes do, certain peculiar words like strengths or squinched, many-lettered, one-syllabled lumps, which I squeeze, squinch open, and splurge well in the silent, startled, icy, black language of blackberry - eating in late September.

  Galway Kinnell

  Art, Fall, Knowing

  Galway Kinnell (2001). “A New Selected Poems”, p.97, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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