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• The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.

  Paul Newman

  Good Night, Healing, Sleep

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• I love fashion. What I love is the ability to express yourself, to be able to make a product and shoot an ad campaign that tosses you out into the world and lets you have a voice in contemporary culture, iconography. I felt a little bit neutered not having that voice.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Love Is, Voice

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• I don't emphasize the whatevs. I say it as if it's truly a toss-away word.

  Eugene Mirman

  Ifs

  "A Guide To Mustering 'The Will To Whatevs'". "All Things Considered" with Robert Smith, www.npr.org. March 1, 2009.

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• Tosses her head and flips her hair, she got a whole bunch of nothing in there.

  Frank Zappa

  Art, Media, Hair

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• When you take the bull by the horns...what happens is a toss-up.

  William Pett Ridge

  Bulls, Horns, Happens

  William Pett Ridge (1912). “Love at Paddington”

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• If he who has little wit needs a master to inform his stupidity, he who has much frequently needs ten to keep in check his worldly wisdom, which might otherwise, like a high-mettled charger, toss him to the ground.

  Christian Scriver

  Stupidity, Needs, Littles

  Christian Scriver (1857). “Gotthold's Emblems: or Invisible things understood by things that are made. Tr. by R. Menzies”, p.147

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• One cannot toss ambassadors back like bad fish," said Eugenides. "You treat them with care, or you'll find you've committed an act of war.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  War, Care, Ambassadors

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• Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids - now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your natural life. What could go wrong?

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Children, Stress, Kids

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• Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Games, Garbage Cans, Nuisance

  "E3 Interview: Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto". Interview with Chris Kohler, www.wired.com. July 19, 2007.

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• Big bad merc, down with a basic hip toss. In your place I'd be blushing.

  Ilona Andrews

  Hips, Bigs, Blushing

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.179, Penguin

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• There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.

  Sam Harris

  Differences, Islam, Doe

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• I loved her fright, which was against me into the air! and the diamond white of her forelock which seemed to smart with thoughts as my heart smarted with life! and she'd toss her head with the pain and paw the air and champ the bit, as if I were Endymion and she, moon-like, hated to love me.

  Frank O'Hara

  Pain, Smart, Heart

  Frank O'Hara (1967). “Meditations in an Emergency”, p.12, Grove Press

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• Funny, 'ow you can 'old a jewel in your 'and, and toss it away, and not even know what you 'ad until it's gone.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Jewels, Gone, Ads

  Jennifer Donnelly (2014). “The Tea Rose”, p.567, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If I said I wouldn’t toss him out of my bed for eating crackers, would you leave me alone? (Grace) Maybe. What else wouldn’t you toss him out of bed for? (Selena) Eating greasy grimy gopher guts? (Grace)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Grace, Leave Me Alone, Bed

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• Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.

  John Thorn

  Baseball, Player, Games

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• To me, I think people who don't think it's a big deal to toss a plastic bottle in the garbage are not only being irresponsible, but I think they're being disrespectful of all the other humans on earth.

  Sophia Bush

  Thinking, People, Bottles

  "Do Something Awards 2011: Sophia Bush Explains Why She Fights for the Environment" by by Sophie Schillaci, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 15, 2011.

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• What's it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single second it takes to actually toss it? Or the ten-thousand-year history of the fossil fuel being burned to drive to work or iron a shirt? It may be environmentally progressive, but it's not altogether pleasant.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Impact, Years, Iron

  "Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now". Book by Douglas Rushkoff, www.wired.com. 2004.

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• Where it all ends I can't fathom, my friends. If I knew, I might toss out my anchor.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Anchors, Might, Ends

  Song: Son of a Son of a Sailor, Album: Son of a Son of a Sailor, 1978

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• You seemed to me to be soaring far up in the blue - to be sailing in the bright light, over the heads of men. Suddenly some one tosses up a faded rosebud - a missile that should never have reached you - and down you drop to the ground.

  Henry James

  Men, Light, Blue

  Henry James (2015). “The Portrait of a Lady (Unabridged): From the famous author of the realism movement, known for The Turn of The Screw, The Wings of the Dove, The American, The Bostonian, The Ambassadors, What Maisie Knew…”, p.275, e-artnow

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• He told me not to seek revenge, but to seek the Buddha,' said the fox spirit, sadly. 'Wise counsel,' said the fox of dreams. 'Vegeance can be a road that has no ending. You would be wise to avoid it. And...?' 'I shall seek the Buddha,' said the fox, with a toss of her head. 'But first I shall seek revenge.

  Neil Gaiman

  Wise, Dream, Revenge

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• Above all, mine is a love story. Unlike most love stories, this one involves chance, gravity, a dash of head trauma. It began with a coin toss. The coin came up tails. I was heads. Had it gone my way, there might not be a story at all. Just a chapter, or a sentence in a book whose greater theme had yet to be determined. Maybe this chapter would've had the faintest whisper of love about it. But maybe not. Sometimes, a girl needs to lose.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Girl, Book, Needs

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• Time to toss the dice

  Robert Jordan

  Dice

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Path of Daggers: Book Eight of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.404, Macmillan

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• Your reason and your passion are your rudder and sails of your seafaring soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Passion, Flames

  Khalil Gibran, “Reason And Passion XV”

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• We sleep to time's hurdy-gurdy; we wake, if ever we wake, to the silence of God. And then, when we wake to the deep shores of time uncreated, then when the dazzling dark breaks over the far slopes of time, then it's time to toss things, like our reason, and our will; then it's time to break our necks for home. There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.

  Annie Dillard

  Home, Heart, Sleep

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• And so they parted, she to the east, and he to the west. The test they had agreed upon, however, was utterly unnecessary. They should never have undertaken it, because they really and truly were each other's 100% perfect lovers, and it was a miracle that they had ever met. But it was impossible for them to know this, young as they were. The cold, indifferent waves of fate proceeded to toss them unmercifully.

  Haruki Murakami

  Fate, Perfect, Miracle

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