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• Learning, pondering, searching, and memorizing scriptures is like filling a filing cabinet with friends, values, and truths that can be called upon anytime, anywhere in the world.

  Richard G. Scott

  Filing Cabinet, World, Scripture

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• At best, I think of a director as a magnet. You get all the metal fillings in all the individual actors and crew, and get those filings moving toward your magnetic direction.

  Rebecca Miller

  Moving, Thinking, Directors

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I have completed and uncompleted screenplays, but they both fall into the category of “unsold.” I've seen quite a few movies where the screenplays seemed to be in the “uncompleted” category yet still got sold and made into movies, so I generally refer too all screenplays as “sold” or “unsold.” But that's just my own filing system.

  Gary Reilly

  Fall, Made, Categories

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• The left's obsession with corporations as a spawn of evil is pathological paranoia. A corporation is just one form of organizing a private business enterprise for purposes of limiting personal liability, issuing stock, filing financial reports and paying taxes. Other forms include partnerships and sole proprietorships. Are they less evil? You buy your groceries from corporations, your cars, newspapers, cellphones, clothing and exercise equipment. Your parents and children work for corporations. Are they evil?

  Mike Rosen

  Children, Exercise, Evil

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• A homeless man once told me that dancing to rap music is the cultural equivalent of masturbating, and I'd sort of fell the same way about playing John Madden Football immediately after filing my income tax: It's fun, but - somehow - vaguely pathetic.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Football, Fun, Rap

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Taxonomy (the science of classification) is often undervalued as a glorified form of filing-with each species in its folder, like a stamp in its prescribed place in an album; but taxonomy is a fundamental and dynamic science, dedicated to exploring the causes of relationships and similarities among organisms. Classifications are theories about the basis of natural order, not dull catalogues compiled only to avoid chaos.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Order, Dull, Causes

  Stephen Jay Gould (1990). “Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History”, p.98, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The real desk isn't one with four legs and a filing cabinet. It's the space of time that you stake out every day and the will with which you defend it.

  Josh Ritter

  Real, Filing Cabinet, Space

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• In their choice of lovers both the male and the female reveal their essential nature. The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart. Love is an impulse which springs from the most profound depths of our beings, and upon reaching the visible surface of life carries with it an alluvium of shells and seaweed from the inner abyss. A skilled naturalist, by filing these materials, can reconstruct the oceanic depths from which they have been uprooted.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Spring, Heart, Love Is

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• Romeo wants Juliet as the filings want the magnet; and if no obstacles intervene he moves towards her by as straight a line as they. But Romeo and Juliet, if a wall be built between them, do not remain idiotically pressing their faces against its opposite sides like the magnet and the filings with the card. Romeo soon finds a circuitous way, by scaling the wall or otherwise, of touching Juliet's lips directly. With the filings the path is fixed; whether it reaches the end depends on accidents. With the lover it is the end which is fixed, the path may be modified indefinitely.

  William James

  Life, Wall, Moving

  William James (1950). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings.

  Holly Black

  Girl, Ozone, Perfume

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart: The Curse Workers”, p.166, Hachette UK

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• I'll listen to you, but you need to treat me with a little respect. Because it doesn't sound like I'm a pawn. Sounds like I'm more of a queen." A vein in his temple began to throb, and she grew bolder, the sense of power emanating from the mark on her chest filing her with the mettle she'd lost after the break-in two years ago. Lowering her voice to a tense whisper, she nipped his earlobe. "Checkmate.

  Larissa Ione

  Queens, Years, Two

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• This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She approves. We have earned favor in her sight. When we sit down and work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.

  Steven Pressfield

  Real, Artist, Dedication

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.108, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Mikeru was still puzzling over Horace's last remark. He frowned. 'Kurokuma, these shenanigans... What are they?' 'Shenanigans are what Rangers do. They usually involve doing things that risk breaking your neck or your leg.' Mikeru nodded, filing the word away. 'I will remember this word,' he said. 'Shenanigans. It is a good word.'

  John Flanagan

  Risk, Shenanigans, Legs

  "The Emperor of Nihon-Ja".

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• But I didn't frame it; I put into an envelope and sealed it and stuffed it far back into a corner drawer of a filing cabinet. It's there, just in case one of these days I start to lose her. There might be a morning when I wake up and her face isn't the first thing I see. Or a lazy August afternoon when I can't quite recall anymore where the freckles were on her right shoulders. Maybe one of these days, I will not be able to listen to the sound of snow falling and hear her footsteps.

  Jodi Picoult

  Morning, Fall, Filing Cabinet

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.423, Simon and Schuster

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• You think he left a big flashing arrow pointing to a filing cabinet labeled 'Evidence Here!'? He's a Stray, Ethan, not Wile E. Coyote!

  Rachel Vincent

  Thinking, Filing Cabinet, Arrows

  Rachel Vincent (2009). “Prey”, p.148, MIRA

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• So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I've learned some things. Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled "file and forget," and I can neither file nor forget. Nor will certain ideas forget me; they keep filing away at my lethargy, my complacency. Why should I be the one to dream this nightmare?

  Ralph Ellison

  Dream, Writing, Ideas

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.592, Vintage

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• I don't think he was ever happy unless someone was in love with him, responding to him like filings to a magnet, helping him to explain himself, promising him something. What it was I do not know. Perhaps they promised that there would always be women in the world who would spend their brightest, freshest, rarest hours to nurse and protect that superiority he cherished in his heart.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Heart, Thinking, Nurse

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2004). “The Complete Short Stories, Essays, and a Play”, p.1022, Simon and Schuster

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• You win the modern financial-regulation game by filing the most motions, attending the most hearings, giving the most money to the most politicians and, above all, by keeping at it, day after day, year after fiscal year, until stealing is legal again.

  Matt Taibbi

  Winning, Years, Games

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• If the constitution is not changed, then we will try to bring it down either before the referendum through the law by filing a suit in international or local courts, if we can, challenging the legitimacy of this constitution and the National Assembly.

  Saleh al-Mutlaq

  Law, Challenges, Trying

  "Iraqi Sunnis Rally Against Constitution". Al-Jazeera Interview, www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2005.

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• Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas in your journal.

  Jim Rohn

  Filing Cabinet, Ideas, Work Out

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 17, 2015

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• She's filing her nails while they are dragging the lake.

  Elvis Costello

  Lakes, Evil, Nails

  Song: Watching The Detectives, Album: My Aim Is True, 1977

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• I was actually a fruitarian at that point in time. I ate only fruit. Now I'm a garbage can like everyone else. And we were about three months late in filing a fictitious business name so I threatened to call the company Apple Computer unless someone suggested a more interesting name by five o'clock that day. Hoping to stimulate creativity. And it stuck. And that's why we're called Apple.

  Steve Jobs

  Business, Creativity, Garbage Cans

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• If there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would amount to a bankruptcy filing.

  David Stockman

  Cutting, Republican, Politician

  "Four deformations of the Apocalypse" by David Stockman, www.nytimes.com. July 31, 2010.

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• When we sit down to work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.

  Steven Pressfield

  Ideas, Iron, Insight

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.108, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• I wanted to create a kind of substance by means of brush-work. But that is the kind of discovery which one makes gradually... Thus it was that I subsequently began to introduce sand, sawdust and metal filings into my pictures.

  Georges Braque

  Mean, Discovery, Substance

  "Cahiers d'Art" by Dora Vallier, p. 76, 1954.

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