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It would be a pity if false statements had been submitted, and we are determined to enforce the regulations rigorously. But we have no plan to scrap the current ivory registration system or close the legitimate (domestic) market.

– An Environment Ministry official

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There's a lot of interest in hedging scrap and rebar ... what's preventing us is a lack of liquidity in (existing) contracts so having a market maker would be lovely to see.

– Antonio Novi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I want to punch them to scrap and knock them down to do it.

– Suidobashi CEO Kogoro Kurata

Found on CNN
8 years ago

All our clients asked for the same thing : software that gave them the ability to send email promotions that included graphics, plus an ability to track results … We realized we already had the parts for that. We built the tool with scrap parts from the failed e-greetings site. We even made the logo out of one of our most popular email cards : a smiling, animated monkey.

– Ben Chestnut

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Sometimes the best way out is to sort of scrap the whole thing and start again.

– Kevin Starke

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We will not give away one scrap of Ukrainian land. We will get back the Donbass ... and show that a very important aspect of our victory is our unity.

– Petro Poroshenko

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

– Simone de Beauvoir

added by anonymous
9 years ago

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

– Pablo Picasso

added by anonymous
10 years ago

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

– George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Epistle Dedicatory

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape...

– Pablo Picasso

added by anonymous
13 years ago

This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap. Being a force of Nature, instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

– George Bernard Shaw

added by scott_j
14 years ago

The artist is a recepticle for the emotions that come from all over the place from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

– Pablo Picasso

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Get lost, you dwarf, you weed, you scrap, you acorn.

– Shakespeare

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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