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«After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century.»
Author: Stella Blum | About: War | Keywords: picked, The 20th Century, World War II
«God still sits on the throne, the devil is a liar. You may be goingthrough a tough time right now but God is getting ready to bless youin a way that only He can. Keep the faith. My instructions were topick four people that I wanted God to bless, and I picked you. Pleasepass this to at least four people you care about»
«From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it.»
«God helps all the children as they move into a time of life they do not understand and must struggle through with precepts they have picked from the garbage can of older people, clinging with the passion of the lost to odds and ends that will mess th»
«AUCTIONEER, n. The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.»
«Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock....his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.»
«From one casual of mine he picked this sentence. ''After dinner, the men moved into the living room.'' I explained to the professor that this was Rose' way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. There must, as we know, be a comma after every move, made by men, on this earth.»
«Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.»
Author: Norman Mailer | About: Chicago | Keywords: floors, picked, slippery
«Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library: a company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years.... The thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age.»
«Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand»

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