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pluck out

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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self. Audre Lorde

If you pluck out my heart To find what makes it move, You'll halt the clock That syncopates our love. Sylvia Plath

Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message. William Bernbach

Feed a crow and it will pluck out your eyes. Turkish Proverb

If a man looks upon your wife pluck out his eye and cook it in a goodly stew. If he eats the stew his manhood will wither and fall off in the next moon. Gypsy Proverb

Ticks and money are difficult to pluck out. Sicilian Proverb

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