Kuan-Shu likes their example so much that it named its tutoring arm Blue Magpie Family.

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This magpie spirit, a Dada weaving of quotidian stuff into one's sartorial nest, gives wings to designers.

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His hope is that graduates will return to help their Blue Magpie "family" when they are grown.

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What the hoarding magpie has to learn is that there is nothing less powerful than hanging onto expired knowledge.

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Her collections now come together in a sort of magpie manner, finding shiny bits of inspiration wherever she goes.

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The soundtrack alone, the trove of a musical magpie, is worth a ticket.

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The trouble with this magpie approach to policymaking is that it produces plenty of ideas, but no single big idea.

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If Romualdez is a magpie, he's long flown in rarefied air.

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The second reason to read this well-written book is the wealth of social detail that Mr Willetts, with his wonderful magpie mind, spreads before the reader.

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The book showcases his talent as a literary magpie, its more than 1, 200 pages shimmering with bright bits of anecdote and quotation, verses and charts, lists and remedies.

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Thus, after noting the Estonian language's "primitive cast, " Mr. Theroux turns his attention to Lord Monboddo, an 18th-century sage who believed that apes were essentially humans without the power of speech, enjoyably esoteric information that tells us little about Estonia but a lot about Mr. Theroux's magpie mind.

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