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• Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly.

  E. B. White

  Trying, Bed, World

  E. B. White (2015). “Charlotte's Web”, p.5, HarperCollins

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• Agent Jones switched to the big screen and a grainy video of MoMo sitting at his enormous desk, a swivel-hipped Elvis clock ticking behind his bewigged head. 'Death to the capitalist pigs! Death to your cinnamon bun-smelling malls! Death to your power walking and automatic car windows and I'm With Stupid T-shirts! The Republic of ChaCha will never bend to your side-of-fries -drive -through-please-oh-would-you-like-ketchup-with-that corruption! MoMo B. ChaCha defies you and all you stand for, and one day, you will crumble into the sea and we will pick up the pieces and make them into sand art.

  Libba Bray

  Art, Stupid, Your Side

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.108, Scholastic Inc.

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• If you're heading downtown from Centeral Park, my advice is to take the subway. Flying pigs are faster but way more dangerous

  Rick Riordan

  Advice, Flying, Downtown

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• We're an Ag college," I explain to them. "Not as good as the one in Yanco but we have livestock." "Cows?" Anson Choi asks, covering his nose. "Pigs, too. And horses. Great for growing tomatoes. The Cadets are wanna-be soldiers. City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure. "I'm going to throw up," one of the guys says. "Don't feel too bad," I explain. "Some of our lot did while they were laying out this stuff. Actually, right there where you're standing.

  Melina Marchetta

  Horse, Fighting, College

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• Linda asked that morning what it was about Charlotte’s Web that Ally particularly liked; maybe it would help to think about that, since it was Ally’s model book. “I like the family that comes together in the barn,” Ally said without hesitation. “I like that they aren’t all the same thing; one is human and one’s a spider and one’s a pig. I like that it has nothing to do with blood relations, and everything to do with love.

  Meg Waite Clayton

  Morning, Book, Thinking

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• The wolf sniffed beneath the door to be sure this was a human cottage. The scent was undeniable. No pigs, except in bacon form. The wolf thought bacon form was a very sensible way for pigs to behave.

  Vivian Vande Velde

  Doors, Cottages, Scent

  Vivian Vande Velde (2010). “Cloaked in Red”, p.104, Marshall Cavendish

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• But the quality of writing in the series [game of Thrones] is paramount. That's probably why all of us are involved in this and all of us are quite so loyal to it, because we don't have to expend a lot of energy trying to make a silk purse out of a pig's ear. The quality of the writing is really good, and that's what makes playing a character so enjoyable, whether he's heroic or villainous.

  Charles Dance

  Writing, Character, Games

  "Game of Thrones, Charles Dance interview: ‘I treat Peter Dinklage appallingly’". Interview with James Lachno, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 31, 2013.

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• To produce that identity among young people required guinea pigs.

  Junot Diaz

  People, Identity, Guinea

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. March 8, 2008.

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• I was driving in Manhattan. There's traffic, nobody's moving... The guy behind me is honking just at me. He kept yelling at me. I decided that I'm gonna argue with this guy, but I'm gonna argue about something else. I'm not having his argument; I'm having mine. So, he's like, 'Go!' And I go, 'Well give me back my jacket!' And he stopped. I was like, 'Yeah, you got my jacket! Give it back! I said you could borrow it, not have it! You're stretching it out, you fat pig! Give it back, now!' He got back in his car, and he locked his doors.

  Louis C. K.

  Moving, Yelling, Doors

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• If I do marry, I'll expect a pretty serious dowry. I'm talking goats, pigs, chickens, the works.

  Dov Davidoff

  Talking, Dowry, Goats

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• If think the pig was terrified because he was fully aware that after segment he was going to be fed to Al Roker.

  Christian Finnegan

  Thinking, Als, Feds

  "Best Week Ever with Paul F. Tompkins". TV Series, www.imdb.com.

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• When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Pain, Loneliness

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• If you think a child is going to be your accessory... it's not like a micro pig. It's not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.

  Tori Amos

  Children, Night, Thinking

  "Tori Amos: My family values" by Jamie Tabberer, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2012.

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• Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.

  Aristotle

  Teacher, Teenager, Parent

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• When you have a 12-minute debate over whether lipstick on a pig refers to a demeaning comment about the vice presidential candidate, you know we're not talking about health reform, we're not talking about energy policy, we're not talking about balancing the budget. And you know, it's fairly stupid.

  Newt Gingrich

  Stupid, Talking, Presidential

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• The system that keeps cosmic beings in a bullshit frame of mind of what existence is to make money off them, use them for their own sick games, perpetuate religions and fear, keeping them small in their heads when they are the divine and we are one force of creative love light mind in a universe of co-creation, cosmic experience, self-expression who should be completely sustained by the cosmos without these power-pigs who kill bodies with chemicals and enslave minds and hide the truths of the universe from them and deal with aliens.

  Giuseppe Andrews

  Expression, Games, Light

  Source: therumpus.net

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• And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Kings, Assistants, Keepers

  Lloyd Alexander (2013). “The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.948, Macmillan

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• Gays, lesbians, straights, feminists, fascist pigs, communists, Hare Krishnas - none of them bother me. I don't care what banner they raise. But what I can't stand are hollow people. When I'm with them I just can't bare it, and wind up saying things I shouldn't.

  Haruki Murakami

  Gay, Wind, People

  "Kafka on the Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami , Chapter 19: Oshima, 2002.

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• Magnus, you were trying to flirt with your own plate." "I'm a very open-minded sort of fellow!" "Ragnor is not," Catarina said. "When he found out that you were feeding us guinea pigs, he hit you over the head with your plate. It broke." "So ended our love," Magnus said. "Ah, well. It would have never worked between me and the plate anyway.

  Cassandra Clare

  Flirting, Trying, Our Love

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “What Really Happened in Peru”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Administrators are like pigs; don't wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Dirty, Coaching

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• Sometimes what I actually love to do is go to a farm and get fresh milk or watch a pig get slaughtered.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Funny, Dumb, Watches

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• She spends her day powdering her face till she looks like a bled pig.

  Margot Asquith

  Sarcastic, Looks, Faces

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• In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fun, Hunters, Swine

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.98, Pan Macmillan

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• If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Men, Might

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• Haemoglobin is a very large molecule by ordinary standards, containing about ten thousand atoms, but the chances are that your haemoglobin and mine are identical, and significantly different from that of a pig or horse. You may be impressed by how much human beings differ from one another, but if you were to look into the fine details of the molecules of which they are constructed, you would be astonished by their similarity.

  Francis Crick

  Horse, Science, Differences

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