Troy Carter

I found a scrap book that my mom had given to me, and inside was a letter that I wrote to myself at age 19. The letter included my goals and dreams for my life, and even then, I was writing about the management company that I built today.

American Producer

John C. Maxwell

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

American Clergyman

Jorge Masvidal

I get along just fine with Woodley. He's actually showed me a lot things in the past, and I've worked with him in the past training to help him get ready to fight. There's no hard feelings if me and hit had to scrap.

American Athlete

George Bernard Shaw

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for - scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

Irish Playwright

Bob Dylan

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

American Musician

Alexander Chase

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.

American Journalist

Aleister Crowley

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

English Critic

John Updike

I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps.

American Novelist

David Talbot

Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living.

Michael Gove

Ed Balls keeps saying that we are committed to scrapping the EMA. I have never said this. We won't.

British Politician

Scrap indicates something smaller than the original item or amount.

Size Implication

Often refers to a remaining piece after most of the item is used.

Residual Material

As 'scrap', an item has usually lost its original purpose or worth.

Lack of Value

Scrap can be reused or converted into something new.

Potential Recycling

To 'scrap' often means a deliberate choice to end use or development.

Final Decision

Can mean to completely redo something from the beginning.

Starting Over

A 'scrap' typically refers to a brief and not particularly serious fight.

Not Serious

Using 'scrap' in the sense of a fight is casual and not for formal situations.

Informal Context

 Working from the few available inscriptions, she recorded how often each symbol appeared. Then she recorded how frequently each symbol appeared next to another. She stored her findings on scrap paper in cigarette cartons because writing supplies were scarce during the Second World War. By analyzing these frequencies,

The race to decode a...

 and listening to the music his father played at home. He drew inspiration from unexpected places, scribbling his own versions of cartoons, comic books and biblical scenes on scrap paper from his father’s office. But it was a medical encyclopedia that arguably exerted the most powerful influence on Basquiat.

The chaotic brilliance...

 and they can sell their worm-eaten table scraps to local farms, hungry for rich fertilizer. So, instead of wasting money, dumping wasted food in landfills, we can remake waste into an asset, putting it back into our food system to make it more sustainable, all with the help of the humble worm,

Vermicomposting: How...

 Aren't you afraid the humiliation of rejection will kill you? Aren't you afraid that you're going to work your whole life at this craft and nothing's ever going to come of it and you're going to die on a scrap heap of broken dreams with your mouth filled with bitter ash of failure?"

Your elusive creative...

 even if that means scrapping months of work. Over time, advances in exploratory research and manufacturing should make this process faster. Preliminary studies suggest that future researchers may be able to swap genetic material from different viruses into the same vaccine design.

How fast can a vaccine...

 particularly in the developing world. And people worked out it's got a value. It's actually an article of value, not of waste. Now the villages and the cities and the streets are clean, you don't trip over scrap copper or scrap iron now,

A radical plan to end...

 waste the scraps are carried off by ants this hyena wants to indulge in another favorite pastime the dust bath but it's chosen a location a little too nearer mother Jacqueline or pups

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 Kibera I taught myself how to read from collecting scraps of newspapers from the trash my only schooling was life hard lessons that I learned on the street as a

What forgiveness can...

 I look for someone who has a sense of fun, who's audacious, who's forthcoming, who has politics, who has even a small scrap of passion for the planet,

A hilarious celebration...

 Bingo. Suma lets him get away with it. They're only scraps, after all. And perhaps now she'll have one more supporter.

Scrap

A small piece or chunk of something.

Often appears as...

Waste or discarded material.

Often appears as...

Get rid of something that is no longer useful or wanted.

Often appears as...

A minor fight or disagreement.

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Size Implication

Residual Material

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