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• Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Catholic, Needs

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  Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Beauty, Wedding

  "The Little Book of Bathroom Philosophy: Daily Wisdom from the Greatest Thinkers". Book by Gregory Bergman, 2004.

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• Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Believe, Catholic

  Saint Augustine, John W. Rettig (1993). “Tractates on the Gospel of John 28–54 (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 88)”, p.18, CUA Press

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• The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.

  Terry Pratchett

  Water, Mind, Recollection

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)”, p.69, Random House

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• And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks!

  Jack Kerouac

  Tanks, Beat Generation

  William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac (2009). “And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks”, p.185, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for you know it is deadly.

  Teju Cole

  Eye, Way, Wounded

  Teju Cole (2016). “Known and Strange Things”, p.240, Faber & Faber

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• I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.

  Karl Pilkington

  Animal, House, Pet

  "Karl Pilkington On 'An Idiot Abroad,' Endangered Animals & Ricky Gervais (VIDEO)". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2012.

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• 'You told me, Father, that after my past life it is still possible to become another St. Augustine. I don't doubt it, and today more than yesterday I want to try to prove it.' But you have to cut out sin courageously from the root, as the holy Bishop of Hippo did.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Father, Cutting, Past

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• It looks like a miniature hippopotamus with badly-fitting panty hose all over.

  Roger Caras

  Dog, Panty Hose, Looks

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• We traveled for two weeks with a pickled hippo.

  Sara Gruen

  Two, Week, Traveled

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• This was the kid who used to toddle over to my bed at 6 o’ clock in the morning every weekend morning to pull on my blankets so I’d get up and watch cartoons with him. This was the kid who once made me play Hungry Hungry Hippos for an hour straight, until I thought my hands were going to fall off from slamming down those dumb little levers to make the hippos’ heads move. This was the kid who had spent an entire days at a time begging me to play Chutes and Ladders with him. And now he was feeling too sick to play with me.

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Morning, Moving, Fall

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• Somewhere behind me, Zia yelled, "Hippo!" Which I thought was a little late. ~Carter Kane

  Rick Riordan

  Littles, Late, Behinds

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• Hippo in a skirt: this was a comic reference to one of Solomon's principal wives, the one from Moab. Childish? Yes. But in the days before printing we had limited opportunities for satire.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Opportunity, Wife, Skirts

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• You might not think a hippo could inspire terror. Screaming “Hippo!” doesn’t have the same impact as screaming “Shark!” But I’m telling you—as the Egyptian Queen careened to one side, its paddle wheel lifting completely out of the water, and I saw that monster emerge from the deep, I nearly discovered the hieroglyphs for accident in my pants.

  Rick Riordan

  Queens, Thinking, Impact

  Rick Riordan (2012). “The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles Book 3)”, p.165, Penguin UK

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• Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Elephants, Balloons, Ghost

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.164, Egmont UK

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• If a hippo ever wants to fight, just walk away.

  Dan Brown

  Fighting, Want, Walks

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• But this plan of yous!' Tawaret shuddered, causing a tsunami of jiggling hippo flesh.

  Rick Riordan

  Flesh, Plans, Tsunami

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• His lion and hippo legs twitched. I wondered if netherworld monsters dreamed of chasing rabbits.

  Rick Riordan

  Monsters, Rabbits, Lions

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1): The Red Pyramid”, p.282, Penguin UK

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• Somewhere behind me, Zia yelled, "Hippo!" Which I thought was a little late. She stumbled toward me over the rocking deck, the tip of her staff on fire. Our ghostly pal Setne floated behind her, grinning with delight. "There is it!" Setne shook his diamond pink rings. "Told ya Apophis would send a monster to kill you." "You're so smart!" I shouted. "Now, how do we stop it?

  Rick Riordan

  Smart, Fire, Monsters

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• Me, I was still in the pygmy hippo in a skirt, singing lusty songs about Solomon's private life and a giant stone back and forth through the air as I climbed out of the quarry at the edge of the site.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Song, Air, Singing

  Jonathan Stroud (2010). “The Ring of Solomon”, p.102, Random House

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• We were born in a Jewish world, as part of a Jewish faith tradition. We had to translate ourselves into the neo-Platonic thinking Greek world; that took us about 400 years. Then, finally a man named Augustine, the Bishop of Hippo, recast Christianity in terms of neo-Platonic thought.

  John Shelby Spong

  Men, Thinking, Years

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• Augustine of Hippo used to say that, but for God's grace, he should have been capable of committing any crime; and it is when we feel this sincerely, that we are most likely to be really improving, and best able to give assistance to others without moral loss to ourselves.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Loss, Should Have, Giving

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". P. 547. Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• A hippo sandwich is easy to make. All you do is simply take one slice of bread, one slice of cake, some mayonnaise, one onion ring, one hippopotamus, one piece of string, a dash of pepper. That ought to do it. And now comes the problem... biting into it!

  Shel Silverstein

  Food, Cake, Cooking

  Shel Silverstein, “Recipe For A Hippopotamus Sandwich”

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• I am she who lifts the mountains When she goes to hunt, Who wears mamba for a headband And a lion for a belt. Beware! I swallow elephants whole And pick my teeth with rhinoceros horns, I drink up rivers to get at the hippos. Let them hear my words! Nhamo is coming And her hunger is great. I am she who tosses trees Instead of spears. The ostrich is my pillow And the elephant is my footstool! I am Nhamo Who makes the river my highway And sends crocodiles scurrying into the reeds!

  Nancy Farmer

  Ostriches, Elephants, Rivers

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• I know at least two people who have never been killed by hippos.

  Bill Engvall

  Two, People, Knows

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