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• Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, History, Looks

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• You cannot make a crab walk straight.

  Aristophanes

  Habit, Walks

  Aristophanes, Peter Meineck (1998). “Aristophanes 1: Clouds, Wasps, Birds”, p.259, Hackett Publishing

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• Since someone ate crabs, others must have eaten spiders as well. However, they were not tasty. So afterwards, people stopped eating them. These people also deserve our heartfelt gratitude.

  Lu Xun

  Gratitude, People, Heartfelt

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• The kind of crabbing my wife likes to do is to return from an afternoon's swim or sunbathing session, open the refrigerator door, and find a generous plate of crab cakes all ready to cook.

  Euell Gibbons

  Food, Doors, Cake

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• Washington is gripped by crab-in-the-bucket syndrome. And there's no cure in sight. Put a single crab in an uncovered bucket, and it will find a way to climb up and out on its own. Put a dozen crabs in a bucket, and 11 will fight with all their might to pull down the striver who attempts escape.

  Michelle Malkin

  Fighting, Sight, Buckets

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• Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly - but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Cat, Animal, Men

  "The Tragic Sense of Life" by Miguel de Unamuno, as translated by J. E. Crawford Flitch, 1921.

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• What is the pattern that connects the crab to the lobster and the primrose to the orchid, and all of them to me, and me to you?

  Gregory Bateson

  Orchids, Lobster, Patterns

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• But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket

  Lawrence Durrell

  Events, Baskets, Crawling

  1958 Balthazar, pt.1.

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• I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such - although not the wide-open and deep seas.

  Anjelica Huston

  Beach, Cancer, Ocean

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• When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the giant crab monsters in them, it really opened up a lot of things for me.

  Jim Jarmusch

  New York, Ohio, Monsters

  Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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• If we are so contemptibly selfish that we can’t radiate a little happiness and pass on a bit of honest appreciation without trying to screw something out of the other person in return—if our souls are no bigger than sour crab apples, we shall meet with the failure we so richly deserve.

  Dale Carnegie

  Appreciation, Selfish, Apples

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• There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and crabs.

  John Hay

  Three, Diplomats, Species

  John Hay, “Distichs”

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• In a recent interview, Hillary Clinton said that one of the jobs that prepared her to be president was sliming fish in Alaska. As opposed to Bill, who learned by catching crabs in Cancun.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Jobs, Alaska, President

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• I'm a big fish eater. Salmon - I love salmon. My sister loves Chinese food and sushi and all that. I'm not as big of a fan, but she likes it so we eat it a lot. So I'm beginning to like it more. I don't like the raw sushi. I liked the cooked crab and lobster and everything.

  Elle Fanning

  Sister Love, Big Fish, Chinese

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• My favorite Dominican dish to indulge in is anything with crab.

  Pharrell Williams

  Indulge In, My Favorite, Dishes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Law, Office

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• [...] a morass of despair violence death with a thin layer of glass spread upon the surface where Love, a tiny crab with pincers and rainbow shell, walked delicately ever sideways but getting nowhere, while the sun [...] rose higher in the sky its tassels dropping with flame threatening every moment to melt the precarious highway of glass. And the people: giant pathworks of colour with limbs missing and parts of their mind snipped off to fit them into the outline of the free pattern.

  Janet Frame

  Glasses, Flames, Sky

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• In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Horse, Shoes, Space

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Funny, Family, Sister

  Peanuts (comic strip), 17 June 1961

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• Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.

  Richard Russo

  Feelings, Barrels, Climbs

  FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Sep 02, 2012

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• It may not be irrelevant to note that even very modest forms of life, like earthworms, dung beetles and fiddler crabs, have no trouble identifying the real problems they must deal with if they are to survive.

  Edward Goldsmith

  Nature, Real, Animal

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• I got body lice in Germany! I'd tell you they were crabs, but I wasn't getting laid.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Germany, Body, Lice

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• Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort of repellent animal intended to dwell in darkness which has been dragged out of its cloaca. One seems to see a horned and living creature viciously struggling to be restored to the place where it belongs. One word is like a claw, another like a sightless and bleeding eye; and there are phrases which clutch like the pincers of a crab. And all of it is alive with the hideous vitality of things that have organized themselves amid disorganization.

  Victor Hugo

  Depressing, Struggle, Eye

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Better a days catch of fish than a lifetime of crabs.

  Phil Robertson

  Lifetime, Fishes

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• Especially when the October wind With frosty fingers punishes my hair, Caught by the crabbing sun I walk on fire And cast a shadow crab upon the land, By the sea's side, hearing the noise of birds, Hearing the raven cough in winter sticks, My busy heart who shudders as she talks Sheds the syllabic blood and drains her words.

  Dylan Thomas

  Heart, Winter, Fire

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.116, New Directions Publishing

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