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  • The turning point was 1959, not just for me but for many artists—the moment when all these stored-up ideas were released into the 1960s.

    A Pop Sculptor On Thinking Big Kelly Crow 2011

  • Like the timelord who in Castrovalva had to jettison a quarter of the Tardis in order to propel it forward in time again, we have to abandon the stored-up past to even have a chance of reaching the future.

    Forgetting, to live « Squares of Wheat 2009

  • Natalia, who had seventeen years of stored-up conversations, began to talk.

    The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

  • Like the timelord who in Castrovalva had to jettison a quarter of the Tardis in order to propel it forward in time again, we have to abandon the stored-up past to even have a chance of reaching the future.

    December « 2009 « Squares of Wheat 2009

  • The heat that is being stored-up in the ice-free Arctic Ocean, which is about 2 degrees Fahrenheit above normal, is getting pumped into the atmosphere.

    Dr. Reese Halter: Wild Weather Unleashed as Arctic Thaws Dr. Reese Halter 2011

  • Natalia, who had seventeen years of stored-up conversations, began to talk.

    The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

  • The heat that is being stored-up in the ice-free Arctic Ocean, which is about 2 degrees Fahrenheit above normal, is getting pumped into the atmosphere.

    Dr. Reese Halter: Wild Weather Unleashed as Arctic Thaws Dr. Reese Halter 2011

  • Father always felt bad wasting the product of human labor, and for such innovations he felt especial admiration and he was sorry to expend the stored-up battery power.

    'The Death of Tolstoy' 2010

  • My entrance into the moment is, like the rich man's, contingent on something else, bigger barns and stored-up wealth, winning the lottery, getting a great job, buying a house, marrying, or fill in the blank -- the "if-only" folly.

    Eric Simpson: The 'If-Only' Folly: The Insatiable Emptiness of Consumerist Culture 2010

  • At least tonight he could burn off his stored-up energy in the gym.

    Deadly Promises Sherrilyn Kenyon 2010

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