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When someone you love makes compassion, kindness, forgiveness, respect and God an option, you can be sure they have made you an option, as well.Shannon L. Alder
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When God takes out the trash, don't go digging back through it. Trust Him.Amaka Imani Nkosazana
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A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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A maid’s yard, house, wardrobe, fridge, etc. sometimes also serve as her master’s dustbin or dumpsite.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.Ray Bradbury
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Good people who are always silent for bad people to gain freedom and do their worsts are the most dangerous wastes the world ever has.Israelmore Ayivor
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They lived off each other's hypocrisy, fuelling a worthless market of trash.E.a. Bucchianeri
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The future is trash. Recycling it, re-arranging it. Making it beautiful again.Chris Campanioni
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She is a great gobbler of books, but reads only trash, memorizing nothing and leaving out the longer descriptions.Vladimir Nabokov
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A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.Vera Nazarian
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What do you mean? In Old Castle? I still live with my parents in case you haven’t noticed, Jack. Those two strangers — that man and woman sitting on my sofa — are actually my parents. Oh, you mean your place? Yes, let’s evict your parents…let’s place them neatly in a cardboard box and leave it by the rubbish bins!Jonathan Dunne
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People's curses will become your clue to win. The trash they think you have will become the treasure for greatness they will plead to enjoy! You will understand this better by and by!Israelmore Ayivor
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The only time they ever throw anything away is when it's really and truly broken, and then they make a big deal about it. They save up all their bent pins and broken sewing needles and once a year they do a whole memorial service for them, chanting and then sticking them into a block of tofu so they will have a nice soft place to rest. Jiko says that everything has a spirit, even if it is old and useless, and we must console and honor the things that have served us well.Ruth Ozeki
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There are so many problems to solve on this planet first before we begin to trash other worlds.E.a. Bucchianeri
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Lunch had been at a McDonald’s in Santa Barbara. It had been so clean. It had smelled like food. It had sounded happy and alive. In the bathroom, the toilet flushed. Water ran in the sink. He had passed a trash can on the way back to his table and stopped just to look at it. It was full of food. Leftover burgers, the last few fries, smears of ketchup on cardboard. He’d had to hold back tears when he saw it.“ Candy bar?” Vicky asked, and held a Snickers out to him. At that moment they slowed to turn off the highway and head cautiously, carefully, through recently bulldozed streets, toward the town plaza. That’s where the McDonald’s was. His McDonald’s.A candy bar. People had killed for less.Michael Grant
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The garbage can is for things that have no importance. If it did have some value, it no longer has any.J.R. Rim
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American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered in rubbish. Everything we use comes in boxes, cartons, bins, the so-called packaging we love so much. The mountain of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use.John Steinbeck
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Americans make more trash than anyone else on the planet, throwing away about 7.1 pounds per person per day, 365 days a year. Across a lifetime that rate means, on average, we are each on track to generate 102 tons of trash. Each of our bodies may occupy only one cemetery plot when we’re done with this world, but a single person’s 102-ton trash legacy will require the equivalent of 1, 100 graves. Much of that refuse will outlast any grave marker, pharaoh’s pyramid or modern skyscraper: One of the few relics of our civilization guaranteed to be recognizable twenty thousand years from now is the potato chip bag. .Edward Humes
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A simple pecking order has always characterized mankind's relationship to waste: The wealthy throw out what they do not want, the poor scavenge what they can, and whatever remains is left to rot.Dan Fagin
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Look at all that rubbish, " she said, watching the electric van slowly whirr from bin to bin, little men in gloves removing it all." They're taking it away, " I said. "Where to?" she said. "It just gets moved around dearie, that's all.Jeanette Winterson
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Gain fame, and the paparazzi or media waits and watches for them to slip, just to shame their name.Anthony Liccione
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Don't lose a treasure while looking for trash.Jeanette Coron
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Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash.Chuck Palahniuk
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Roses, " she thought sardonically, "All trash, m’dear.Virginia Woolf
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On Sunday mornings, as the dawn burned into day, swarms of gulls descended on the uncollected trash, hovering and dropping in the cold clear light.Edward Conlon
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You're one to talk about talking crap, Forester." Dunstan's voice interrupts the memory, and I can't help but feel a little grateful. "Accusing my dad of poisoning the swamp? What a bunch of bull."" It's not bull, " I snarl. "Your dad's dumping trash into the swamp and you know it! " Dunstan finally loses it and stands up. The boat tilts dangerously. Melanie and the twins shriek, grasping the sides like they're glued to them." You two sit down this minute! " Babette bellows. She's holding onto the motor for dear life. Neither of us listens." You wanna run that by me again?" Dunstan growls. His fingers curl into fists." Your. Dad. Is. Poisoning. The. Swamp." I let each word out slowly like Dunstan's a dumb little kid who needs help understanding. .Colleen Boyd
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All my friends are bums. We all gather round our camp-fire (in a can) and sing songs of togetherness as we cuddle, to preserve our warmth...Will Advise
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I have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it's a cycle: trash myself to reward myself.Jeff Bridges
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I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.Thom Yorke
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On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.Iman
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Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.Joyce Brothers