"If I know there's a trophy here, I can sit forever, " he says, motioning to a small bucket that serves as a Port-O-John.

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Another dumped a bucket of small plastic beads on the floor.

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Mornings we'd sit out on what was left of his small patio, drinking coffee and watching the bucket brigades in the ravine below, hauling away the rubble one pail at a time.

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The witness walked over with a bucket of water to extinguish what looked to be a small fire, then went back inside a building.

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If people fill the bucket with pebbles and sand (i.e. the small things), it is impossible to get the rocks in (i.e. the big things).

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