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• It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?

  Horace

  Running, Wine, Water

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• I don't know when pepper mills in a restaurant got to be right behind frankincense and myrrh in prominence. It used to be in a little jar that sat next to the salt on the table and everyone passed it around, sneezed, and it was no big deal.

  Erma Bombeck

  Tables, Littles, Salt

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• The Shift hasn't happened yet, maybe it never will, but sometimes-just enough times to give me hope-my brain jars back into where it's supposed to be.

  Ned Vizzini

  Giving, Brain, Enough Time

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• If anyone should doubt whether the electrical matter passes through the substance of bodies, or only over along their surfaces, a shock from an electrified large glass jar, taken through his own body, will probably convince him.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Taken, Glasses, Doubt

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin, William Duane (1834). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.258

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• How much more of the mosque, of prayer and fasting?
  Better go drunk and begging round the taverns.
  Khayyam, drink wine, for soon this clay of yours
  Will make a cup, bowl, one day a jar.
  When once you hear the roses are in bloom,
  Then is the time, my love, to pour the wine;
  Houris and palaces and Heaven and Hell-
  These are but fairy-tales, forget them all.

  Omar Khayyam

  Atheist, Prayer, Wine

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• Later when I thought of the chickens, one of those rare pale blue eggs rose up into my throat. The chickens had been part of our family, and the egg in my throat was the feeling of something missing. It was hard and smooth and heavy, but also so fragile it might break and make me cry. It was the feeling of growing out of a favorite shirt, milk spilled on the floor, the last bit of honey in the jar, falling apple blossoms. It was the lump in the throat behind everything beautiful in life.

  Melissa Coleman

  Beautiful, Fall, Blue

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• Do not heed the jar of man's warring opinions. Let God be true and every man a liar. The Bible is the Bible still. If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God. You have an unction from the Holy One, and you know all things.

  Horatius Bonar

  Letting Go, Liars, Men

  Jonathan Edwards, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Horatius Bonar (2007). “God's Will, Man's Will and Free Will”, p.7, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• There was a young man of Herne Bay
  who was making some fireworks one day:
  but he dropped his cigar
  in the gunpowder jar.
  There was a young man of Herne Bay.

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Men, Smoking

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• Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty,a drop of the Tigris that cannot be contained by any skin. Every jarful spills and makes the earth more shining, as though covered in satin... Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.

  Rumi

  Shining, Joy, Skins

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• I could go for a sandwich, but I’m not gonna open two jars.

  Brian Regan

  Two, Peanut Butter, Sandwiches

  "Comedy Central Presents (TV Series) Brian Regan". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• I keep looking for ultimate answers, but maybe there aren't any or maybe I'm not looking in the right places, because in the section marked ANSWERS in the back of my geometry book, there's only a bunch of numbers, and all I can find to stare at in the refrigerator is five carrots and a jar of no-fat mayonnaise.

  Rachel Vail

  Book, Numbers, Answers

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• When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.

  Taylor Swift

  Mom, Giving, Jam

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• Yesterday a child came out to wonder
  Caught a dragonfly inside a jar
  Fearful when the sky was full of thunder
  And tearful at the falling of a star

  Joni Mitchell

  Stars, Children, Fall

  Song: The Circle Game

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• You know what my mum once said?’ said Rosie… ‘She said that if a just-married couple put a coin in a jar every time they make love in their first year, and take a coin out for every time that they make love in the years that follow, the jar will never be emptied.’ And this means…?’ Well’, she said. ‘It’s interesting, isn’t it?

  Neil Gaiman

  Sex, Couple, Mean

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• I must have been born under an unlucky star. You know I have filled out entry blanks for every single drawing in the supermarket for the last twelve years, and the only thing I ever won was a coupon for a small little jar of tomato paste. But they were out of tomato paste, and by the time they got more in, my coupon had expired. And now I have venereal disease.

  Louise Lasser

  Stars, Filled Out, Years

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• Want me to warm up the sauce?” “Do we do that? I mean, it’s in a jar, right? Can’t you just dump it over the pasta?” “Well, you can, but it tastes better if you warm it up.” “Oh.” Eve sighed. “This is complicated. No wonder I never cook.

  Rachel Caine

  Mean, Pasta, Want

  Rachel Caine (2007). “The Dead Girls' Dance: The Morganville Vampires”, p.37, Penguin

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• One night, in his cups, he drank a jar of wildfire, after telling his friends it would transform him into a dragon, but the gods were kind and it transformed him into a corpse.

  George R. R. Martin

  Night, Dragons, Cups

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.790, Bantam

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• Hope your new boots are fast Bella. One little jar isn't going to keep a hungry bear occupied for long." "I only have to be faster than you.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Long, Boots, Littles

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “New Moon”, p.115, Hachette UK

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• How Superheroes Make Money: - Spider-Man knits sweaters. - Superman screw the lids on pickle jars. - Iron Man, as you would suspect, just irons.

  Jim Benton

  Men, Iron, Sweaters

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• I found out when I did the Oprah Winfrey show that there was a cookie jar of me. So she gave it to me. I had no idea prior to that that it even existed.

  Carrie Fisher

  Ideas, Cookies, Found

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. September 13, 2011.

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• But I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure at all. How did I know that someday―at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere―the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again?

  Sylvia Plath

  College, Europe, Bells

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.124, Hamilton Books

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• I picked up Pandora's jar. The spirit of Hope fluttered inside, trying to warm the cold container. "Hestia," I said, "I give this to you as an offering." The goddess tilted her head. "I am the least of the gods. Why would you trust me with this?" "You're the last Olympian," I said. "And the most important." "And why is that, Percy Jackson?" "Because Hope survives best at the hearth," I said. "Guard it for me, and I won't be tempted to give up again."

  Rick Riordan

  Giving Up, Offering, Important

  "Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian". Book by Rick Riordan, May 5, 2009.

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• Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar.

  Pablo Neruda

  Infinite, Oblivion, Shattered

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.25, Macmillan

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• I got out my jar of ointment. I knew animators who had special containers for the ointment. Crockery, hand-blown glass, mystical symbols carved into the sides. I used an old Mason jar that had once held Grandma Blake's green beans. Larry fished out a peanut butter jar with the label still on it. Extra-crunchy. Yum-Yum.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Grandma, Glasses, Hands

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Bloody Bones: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.263, Penguin

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• You know I could go for a sandwich, but uh, I'm not gonna open TWO jars! I can't be opening and closing all kinds of jars... cltaning, who KNOWS how many knives!?

  Brian Regan

  Knives, Two, Sandwiches

  "Brian Regan Live". Album by Brian Regan, 1997.

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