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For an optimistic view of things take a look through these

Rose-colored glasses

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Ahoy!  It's a lookout perch atop a high mast

A Crow's Nest

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Escape to Margaritaville:Him

Jimmy Buffett

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I'm not a cook but I can sure toast up these Kellogg company breakfast treats with the best of them

Pop-Tarts

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Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener" is subtitled "A Story of" this street of finance

Wall Street

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It's what's going on here


Comparing Apples & Oranges

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The creature that provides the marquee ingredient of this Chinese delicacy is endangered

Bird's Nest Soup

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"Beautiful":

This singer-songwriter

Carole King

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I can't bake or mash a potato, so this alliterative Ore-Ida spud product that dates back to 1953 is a godsend to me

Tater Tots

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In "Charlotte's Webb", Templeton is this creature

A Rat

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Greenhouse gas emission due to human activity leaves behind this

A Carbon Footprint

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Danny DeVito & Christopher Lloyd both had small parts as mental hospital inmates in this 1975 film

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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"Movin' Out":

This keyboard guy

Billy Joel

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I'm a wizard at breakfast with this cereal that now features a new marshmallow shaped like a magical unicorn

Lucky Charms

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In a novel Simone de Beauvoir depicted herself as Anne & this author of "The Stranger" as Henri

(Albert) Camus

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If you have these, it means you're well-organized

Your Ducks in a Row

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Made in a series of varying sizes to fit one inside each other, matryoshka are "nesting" these from Russia

Dolls

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"Jersey Boys":

Them

The Four Seasons

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I hum one of his country songs as I pop one of his protein-packed breakfast bowls into the microwave

Jimmy Dean

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In a 1923 book by Kahlil Gibran, Almustafa is this mystical title character

The Prophet

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Note the lovely weather; it means to take advantage of an opportunity

Make Hay While the Sun Shines

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Doesn't sound comfy, but several birds make nests in the giant saguaro cactus, including the Gila variety of this headbanger

A Woodpecker

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"Ain't Too Proud":

This Motown group

The Temptations

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You don't want vegetables cooked by me--have them raw, as this French-named appetizer

Crudites

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The title peak of this Thomas Mann novel is home to a Swiss sanatorium

Magic Mountain