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• The Axiom of Choice is necessary to select a set from an infinite number of socks, but not an infinite number of shoes.

  Bertrand Russell

  Shoes, Numbers, Choices

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• Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Believe, Heart, Kids

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.216, Faber & Faber

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• Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew. While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew. Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze. Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze. That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.

  Dr. Seuss

  Tree, Three, Fleas

  Song: Fox In Socks

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• It is not an easy thing to put on a wet sock.

  Connie Willis

  Easy, Easy Things, Wet

  Connie Willis (2013). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.210, Hachette UK

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• A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Oil, Nails, Fabric

  Branden Wayne Joseph, Robert Rauschenberg (2003). “Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-avant-garde”, p.108, MIT Press

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• A four-hundred-dollar suit on him would look like socks on a rooster.

  Earl Long

  Sarcastic, Roosters, Dollars

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• You know you're getting fat when your socks don't fit.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Humor, Fit

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• I can't go on anymore bad dates. I would rather be home alone than out with some guy who sells socks on the internet.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Home, Frustration, Guy

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• I love to accent movement. The eye goes to where the white is - you know, the glove. And the feet, if you're dancing, you can put an exclamation point on your movement if it has a bit of light on it. So I wore the white socks. And for the design of the jacket, I would sit with the people who made the clothes and tell them where I wanted a button or a buckle or a design.

  Michael Jackson

  Eye, Light, Exclamation Points

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Dec 17, 2014

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• The most painful household accident is wearing socks and stepping on an upturned plug.

  Peter Kay

  Painful, Plugs, Household

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• All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Ask Me, Knows

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

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• Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.

  Edward Hoagland

  Running, Women, Hands

  Edward Hoagland (1999). “Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life”, p.34, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks.

  Camilla Belle

  Cute, Girl, Thinking

  "Abdul pretends her bad video didn't happen". www.today.com. February 21, 2008.

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• But after several hours, I go anyway, walking in silent sock feet, so as not to awaken the ghosts.

  Suzanne Collins

  Feet, Ghost, Silent

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.381, Scholastic Inc.

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• To choose one sock from each of infinitely many pairs of socks requires the Axiom of Choice, but for shoes the Axiom is not needed.

  Bertrand Russell

  Shoes, Choices, Pairs

  "Weighing the Odds: A Course in Probability and Statistics". Book by David Williams, p. 498, 2001.

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• Oh great, socks. You know I'm dying for your sins right? Yeah, but thanks for the socks! They'll go great with my sandals. What am I, German?

  Jim Gaffigan

  Christmas, Dying, Thanks

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• Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed toes, and could no longer slouch into the study in PJs and slippers. Someone would (avert!) straighten my desk. Someone would reorganize my yarn stash...in fact, they'd assign someone else to knit my socks, thus depriving me of an excuse to rest my brain while pretending to accomplish something useful.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Yarn, Clothes, Pjs

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• Isn't life strange? There are people who have so many leftover clothes they can't stuff them all in their wardrobe. And then there are people like me, whose socks never match.

  Haruki Murakami

  Clothes, People, Stuff

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Sputnik Sweetheart”, p.47, Random House

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• Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

  Jean Kerr

  Women, Wish, Cleaning

  Jean Kerr (1962). “The Snake Has all the Lines”

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• I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.

  Neil Armstrong

  White, Pockets, Diagrams

  "The Engineered Century". Neil Armstrong's remarks during National Engineers Week on behalf of the National Academy of Engineering at the National Press Club, www.nae.edu. February 22, 2000.

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• She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Morning, School, Feet

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.3, Hamilton Books

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• If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do: You must learn how to make a perfect chicken-dumpling stew. And you must sew my holey socks, And soothe my troubled mind, And develop the knack for scratching my back, And keep my shoes spotlessly shined. And while I rest you must rake up the leaves, And when it is hailing and snowing You must shovel the walk...and be still when I talk, And-hey-where are you going?

  Shel Silverstein

  Shoes, Snow, Perfect

  Shel Silverstein, “My Rules”

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• It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your sock drawer, so you could touch it again.

  Rick Bragg

  Book, Pages, Kind

  Rick Bragg (2010). “All Over but the Shoutin'”, p.292, Vintage

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• The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.

  Ann Voskamp

  Prayer, Reading, Fire

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• Under a Labour government, there's virtually nowhere you can put your savings where they would be safe from the state. ... If you put money in a sock they'd probably nationalize socks.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Government, Would Be, Saving

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