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• The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.

  Clifford Geertz

  Mother, Brother, Horse

  Clifford Geertz (1988). “Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author”, p.8, Stanford University Press

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• Particularly when you're dealing with very high ranking people, you know, you have to get their attention, they are used to, by their rank, of having their own way and doing their own thing and when it's necessary to all work together on something, sometimes you have to hit the mule between the eyes of the two by four to get its attention.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Eye, Two, People

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• The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule.

  Mark Helprin

  Book, Soul, Shelves

  Mark Helprin (1989). “Winter's Tale”, Pocket Books

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• Why do I want my wife to show off her panties when the wind blows? Horses show their behinds, and cows and mules, not humans.

  Muhammad Ali

  Horse, Blow, Wind

  "Did I say that?" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. August 22, 2009.

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• A culture-bearing book, like a mule, bears the culture on its back. No one should sit down to write one deliberately. Culture-bearing books appear almost accidentally, like a sudden surge in the stock market. There are books of high quality that are a part of the culture, but that is not the same. They are a part of it. They aren't carrying it anywhere. They may talk about insanity sympathetically, for example, because that's the standard cultural attitude. But they don't carry any suggestion that insanity might be something other than sickness or degeneracy.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Attitude, Book, Writing

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, Afterword to the 10th anniversary edition, written in Gothenburg, Sweden, 1984.

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• My favorite sound is definitely mules. If it was an instrument, it's really pingthe touch of the black keys of the piano.

  Christian Louboutin

  Keys, Piano, Black

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• He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses horse and mule.

  Francois Rabelais

  Horse, Adventure, Adventurous

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 9, Gargantua, Book I, ch. 33, 1922.

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• It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.

  Al Sharpton

  Commitment, Giving, Acres

  2004 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 28 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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• We were in all four men with eight animals; for besides the spare horses led by Shaw and myself, an additional mule was driven along with us as a reserve in case of accident.

  Francis Parkman

  Horse, Animal, Men

  Francis Parkman (2016). “The Oregon Trail: Juvenile History - - American”, p.8, VM eBooks

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• I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin.

  Marcia Gay Harden

  Character, Age, Hollywood

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• Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Drivers, Happened, Died

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.74, Modern Library

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• Don't you give me that postmodern bullshit. There is truth, There is a truth. And what you want, or you feel, or you need, isn't going to change the truth. Any more than it's going to topple a skyscraper. There's truth, and there's belief. Don't call a mule a stallion.

  Carol Plum-Ucci

  Giving, Bullshit, Needs

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• Everybody's old enough for a beer, ain't that right, Mule?

  Jack Nicholson

  Beer, Enough

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• The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor’s edge, sharper than a hound’s tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist; perhaps it is a phantom.

  Philip K. Dick

  Insanity, Teeth, Doe

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The people who really matter in social affairs are neither those who wish to stop short like a mule, or leap from crag to crag like a mountain goat.

  Walter Lippmann

  People, Wish, Mountain

  Walter Lippmann, Julien C. Sprott (2015). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.144, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Stubborn, Jackasses, Humans

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• One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool

  E. W. Howe

  Funny, Goats, Fool

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• My wife called me a mule. She once said, "I didn't marry a man; I married a mule!" I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.

  Tom Waits

  Men, Thinking, Wife

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• She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.

  Junot Diaz

  Horse, Inspiration, Would Be

  Junot Diaz (2008). “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, p.163, Faber & Faber

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• Children are a burden to a mother, but not the way a heavy box is to a mule. Our children weight hard on my heart, and thinking about them growing up honest and healthy, or just living to grow up at all, makes a load in my chest that is bigger than the safe at the bank,and more valuable to me than all the gold inside it.

  Nancy E. Turner

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

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• Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Media, Jewels

  Song: Visions Of Johanna, Album: Blonde On Blonde, 1966

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• Do you want me to ride you like a rented mule, or do you prefer to be Mr. Missionary Position? I'm fine with wither, so it doesn't matter to me.

  Katie MacAlister

  Missionary, Want, Matter

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• I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and the piano.

  Pinetop Perkins

  Guitar, Piano, Car

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• Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Creativity, Destiny, Care

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• ... If we consider the difference between William Henry Jackson packing in his camera by mule, and the person stepping for a moment from his car to take a picture with his Instamatic, it becomes clear how some of our space has vanished; if the time it takes to cross space is a way by which we define it, then to arrive at a view of space 'in no time' is to have denied its reality.

  Robert Adams

  Photography, Reality, Space

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