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I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abilities. This is a woman who could find an old, discarded piece of furniture, bring it home and turn it into something fabulous.

~Candice Olson

Topics: Ability Bring Could Creative Credit Design Discarded Fabulous Find Furniture Her Home Inspiring Love Matched Me Mom Old Piece Problem-Solving Something Turn Who Woman

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I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.

~Carolyn Wells

Topics: Achieving Am Crowned Discarded Efforts Facts Fond More Must Prove Soon Striving Success Than Theories Worthless I Am

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Within HTC, hundreds of ideas are tested and discarded to find those rare ideas that define the HTC user experience.

~Cher Wang

Topics: Define Discarded Experience Find Hundreds Ideas Rare Tested Those User Within

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How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.

~Claude Debussy

Topics: Before Discarded Explored Feeling Flesh How How Much Much Naked Reaching

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Over the course of those 12 episodes we discarded what didn't work and kept what did and that refined it.

~Dave Rowntree

Topics: Course Did Discarded Episodes Kept Over Refined Those Work

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We charted individual pitches by hand, so I had that data from game to game, but from year to year, I didn't really have that data, because a lot of times it was discarded.

~David Cone

Topics: Because Data Discarded Game Had Hand Individual Lot Pitches Really Times Year

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Calling a book 'young adult' is only important in that it can help get a book to the right reader. After that, it's a useless abstraction and should be discarded.

~Eliot Schrefer

Topics: Abstraction Adult After Book Calling Discarded Get Help Important Only Reader Right Should Useless Young Young Adult

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In 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,' protagonist Winston Smith works at a propaganda department for the state called the 'Ministry of Truth,' where inconvenient news can be discarded down a 'memory hole.' Orwell was fixated on the idea that under certain governments, the past can be altered or documents rewritten.

~Elizabeth Flock

Topics: Altered Certain Department Discarded Documents Down Governments Hole Idea Inconvenient Memory Ministry News Nineteen Past Propaganda Protagonist Rewritten Smith State Truth Where Winston Works

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The ministers of Christ should possess refinement. All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves humble dignity of bearing.

~Ellen G. White

Topics: Attitudes Bearing Christ Dignity Discarded Encourage Gestures Humble Manners Ministers Possess Refinement Should Themselves Uncouth

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For 'Thunderstruck', I discarded about a dozen ideas. And then one afternoon, I was thinking about wireless. I don't know why. I guess because it's become so ubiquitous. I was thinking that maybe there's something I could do about the origin of wireless, so I did what any self-respecting person does these days: I Googled 'wireless.'

~Erik Larson

Topics: About Afternoon Any Because Become Could Days Did Discarded Does Dozen Guess Ideas Know Maybe Origin Person Something Then Thinking Why Wireless Ubiquitous

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