• "It's like a butterfly going back into the cocoon and becoming a caterpillar again, " he said.

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  • The currency high-roller: Float like a butterfly with the euro and drop like a stone with the pound!

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  • The movie is like a butterfly half out of its cocoon, emerging with many fond looks back to the protective walls.

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  • "We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye" and "Just Like a Butterfly (That's Caught in the Rain)" were inspired by the relaxed recordings of '20s singer Annette Hanshaw.

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  • "My heart is fluttering like a butterfly, " he says.

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  • On Friday, the three-time heavyweight champion, whose name became synonymous with the phrases "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" and "I am the Greatest, " made another memorable appearance late Friday during a spectacular opening ceremony ushering in the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London.

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  • Swan added that Like-A-Butterfly, last year's Supreme Novices winner, had proved she was a live contender for the Champion Hurdle.

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  • McManus' prospects in the Champion Hurdle were also boosted when Like-A-Butterfly edged out Limestone Lad in the finish of the month at Leopardstown.

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  • An anthropocentric humanism finds expression in this novel in the very sensual pleasures of life and in the theory of chaos, pictured as a waterwheel with an irregular spin that creates a butterfly-like pattern which is impossible to predict but beautiful to behold.

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  • Like sitting on the back of a butterfly is how someone described flying the plane.

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  • However, there's little doubt that the N003 at those prices would be slower than a truly high-end phone like the HTC Butterfly, especially considering its pedigree.

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  • The second lesson is that works that seem to be repetitious actually contain important, subtle differences. (Take heed, all you buyers who think one Damien Hirst butterfly or spot painting is just like another.) A weak market just exacerbates these differences.

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  • Like the proverbial butterfly in China that flaps its wings and eventually causes a hurricane to form in the Atlantic, everything eventually impacts everything else, so there can never be a demarcation between commerce and inaction, interstate commerce or local.

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