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If you're cooking at home, there's still a lot of unused food scraps. composting is worth doing -- it works on many levels. – Pamela Koch	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I set Kevin Nicks a challenge to build a machine on zero budget because for some people money is tight, somebody donated a moped which wasn't running and I got that running. Everything else was just scraps and bits and pieces I had around. – Kevin Nicks	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
They were recovered as mostly small scraps from the ice around him, from his clothes and gear, and even from his alimentary tract, those findings prompted the questions : Where did the fragments come from ? How, precisely, did they get there ? How do they help our understanding of The Iceman ? – Jim Dickson	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The meaning of being full is not what it was before the war ... If I see some scraps of food are left, I get up so that the children will not be hungry. I can bear the hunger, but they can't. – Hussein Abdu	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We’re not where we need to be. All of us have more work to do. After all, if every economic issue is framed as a struggle between a hardworking white middle class and undeserving minorities, then workers of all shades will be left fighting for scraps while the wealthy withdraw further into their private enclaves. – Donald Trump	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
There is not much stock left to borrow and what is left is going out the door at premium levels with borrow rates of 45 percent to 75 percent fee today, there is virtually no stock left to borrow in SCTY which is reflected in the 100-percent-plus borrow cost of any scraps that have been traded today. – Ihor Dusaniwsky	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
You can follow the trend, or you can set the trend, you set the trend by having a barometer of what young folks are doing, and the conditions of life they’re living. We would take stuff that was scraps and turn them into luxury. It wasn’t rags to riches. We turned our rags into things that rich people wanted. It’s like, ‘Oh, this is what I got? That motherfucker’s gonna want this because of how I rock it and how confident I am with it.’. – Air Jordans	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
They are finding the urban areas that have little scraps of habitat that they can making a living in. – Roland Kays	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We thought it would be lung tissue, but instead we found little scraps of paper covered with Chinese characters. – Van Vilsteren	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I think there is a resilience gene. There are so many times when I could have packed it in, or subsisted on scraps. Or I could have chosen girlfriends who were bad for me or cruel or abusive, but I didn't, i need for them to see me as plainly and clearly as they possibly can. I need unequivocal visibility from my sexual partner. – Jim Ambrose	Found on CNN 9 years ago
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around -- the music and the ideas. – Bob Dylan	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. – Edward Young, Love of Fame (satire I, l. 89)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Love cannot survive if you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time, scraps of your thoughts. – Mary O'Hara	added by anonymous 14 years ago
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 years ago

If you're cooking at home, there's still a lot of unused food scraps. composting is worth doing -- it works on many levels.

– Pamela Koch

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I set Kevin Nicks a challenge to build a machine on zero budget because for some people money is tight, somebody donated a moped which wasn't running and I got that running. Everything else was just scraps and bits and pieces I had around.

– Kevin Nicks

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

They were recovered as mostly small scraps from the ice around him, from his clothes and gear, and even from his alimentary tract, those findings prompted the questions : Where did the fragments come from ? How, precisely, did they get there ? How do they help our understanding of The Iceman ?

– Jim Dickson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The meaning of being full is not what it was before the war ... If I see some scraps of food are left, I get up so that the children will not be hungry. I can bear the hunger, but they can't.

– Hussein Abdu

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We’re not where we need to be. All of us have more work to do. After all, if every economic issue is framed as a struggle between a hardworking white middle class and undeserving minorities, then workers of all shades will be left fighting for scraps while the wealthy withdraw further into their private enclaves.

– Donald Trump

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

There is not much stock left to borrow and what is left is going out the door at premium levels with borrow rates of 45 percent to 75 percent fee today, there is virtually no stock left to borrow in SCTY which is reflected in the 100-percent-plus borrow cost of any scraps that have been traded today.

– Ihor Dusaniwsky

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

You can follow the trend, or you can set the trend, you set the trend by having a barometer of what young folks are doing, and the conditions of life they’re living. We would take stuff that was scraps and turn them into luxury. It wasn’t rags to riches. We turned our rags into things that rich people wanted. It’s like, ‘Oh, this is what I got? That motherfucker’s gonna want this because of how I rock it and how confident I am with it.’.

– Air Jordans

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

They are finding the urban areas that have little scraps of habitat that they can making a living in.

– Roland Kays

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We thought it would be lung tissue, but instead we found little scraps of paper covered with Chinese characters.

– Van Vilsteren

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I think there is a resilience gene. There are so many times when I could have packed it in, or subsisted on scraps. Or I could have chosen girlfriends who were bad for me or cruel or abusive, but I didn't, i need for them to see me as plainly and clearly as they possibly can. I need unequivocal visibility from my sexual partner.

– Jim Ambrose

Found on CNN
9 years ago

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around -- the music and the ideas.

– Bob Dylan

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

– Edward Young, Love of Fame (satire I, l. 89)

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Love cannot survive if you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time, scraps of your thoughts.

– Mary O'Hara

added by anonymous
14 years ago

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.

– William Shakespeare

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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