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picks up

Examples

I don't want long hair, I don't want short hair, I don't want hair at all, and I don't want to be a girl or a boy, I want to be a yellow-orange leaf some little kid picks up and pastes in his scrapbook. Sherman Alexie

I believe that cinema picks up ideas from society and not the other way round. Amitabh Bachchan

For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved in a tornado. Mary McCarthy

The hen that stays at home picks up the crumbs. Portuguese Proverb

He that picks up all sorts of wood, soon gets an armful. German Proverb

With patience and a bit of spittle, the elephant picks up the ant so little. Mexican Proverb

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