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• Try this: say the words "global, global, global" aloud several times, as fast as you can. You'll find yourself sounding like a turkey ("gobble, gobble, gobble").

  Jim Stanford

  Finding Yourself, Trying

  "Economics For Everyone". Book by Jim Stanford, 2008.

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• Well, after I had the heart attack, it was a very simple choice. What the doctor told me I did and I did it religiously. I ate nothing but lean turkey breast or chicken breast or a piece of fish that was very lean. I mean I stayed away from everything.

  Mike Ditka

  Heart, Mean, Simple

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• I always buy the smaller turkeys. On the pre-baste put pats of butter on the meat under the skin, put the skin back on, put a bunch of seasoning on the top, call it a day, put it in the oven. With a 10 - 12 pound turkey you are done in a couple of hours.

  Sandra Lee

  Couple, Skins, Meat

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• I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, Political, Crow

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• Cooking Tip: Wrap turkey leftovers in aluminum foil and throw them out.

  Nicole Hollander

  Food, Funny Thanksgiving, Cooking

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• There's a turkey shortage. Are you aware of that fact? There's also a gravy shortage. It's up to $4 a gallon. Governor Chris Christie wants to build a gravy pipeline.

  David Letterman

  Pipeline, Want, Facts

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• Heaped on the floor were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, bartrels of oysters, re-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam.

  Charles Dickens

  Oysters, Games, Cake

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• I have cooked turkeys in my day but when Mom`s around I let her do it.

  Tom Cruise

  Mom

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• Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Country, Rest In Peace, Lying

  "Embracing the Enemy", www.abc.net.au. April 24, 2005.

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• Thanksgiving without tension is like a Thanksgiving without turkey. It can be done, but it is not the norm.

  Mary Schmich

  Done, Tension, Norm

  "Thanksgiving Helper Hotline addresses pressing holiday issues" by Mary Schmich, articles.chicagotribune.com. November 21, 2012.

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• Turkeys, quails, and small birds, are here to be seen; but birds are not numerous in desart forests; they draw near to the habitations of men, as I have constantly observed in all my travels.

  William Bartram

  Men, Bird, Forests

  William Bartram (2012). “Travels of William Bartram”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• Words are heavy in Turkey, and every writer, every poet and every journalist knows that, because of a word, because of a sentence, because of a tweet or even a retweet, you can be sued, you can be demonized by the media and you can even land in prison.

  Elif Safak

  Media, Land, Prison

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours. You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Life, Country, Mother

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• You cannot soar with the eagles as long as you hang out with the turkeys.

  Joel Osteen

  Motivational, Eagles, Long

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• If tomorrow morning Brussels should decide to let Turkey in, Italians wouldn't be free to oppose it, neither in Parliament nor through a referendum. A

  Matteo Salvini

  Morning, Tomorrow, Referendums

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Our bilateral relations and our agreement [between Turkey and America] on the extradition of criminals should dominate and precede actually any inclusion into any list.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Agreement, America, Criminals

  Source: perspectivebd.com

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• If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.

  Salman Rushdie

  Country, Europe, Long

  "Salman Rushdie: Inside the Mind of Jihadists". Interview with Nathan Gardels, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• love iz a big fat turkey and every day iz thanksgiving

  Charles Bukowski

  Bigs, Fats

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• Turkey's great if you're one of those people who can't sleep on planes because when the tryptophan kicks in, it's no problem.

  Mike Pesca

  Sleep, People, Problem

  "Panel Round One". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Mike Pesca, www.npr.org. January 16, 2016.

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• A small minority in Turkey even accuses me of having political ambitions, when in fact I have been struggling with various illnesses for many years.

  Fethullah Gulen

  Struggle, Ambition, Years

  "Meet Fethullah Gülen, the World’s Top Public Intellectual". Foreign Policy Interview, foreignpolicy.com. August 4, 2008.

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• I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and the candles and the silver and gilt-ribboned presents and the birch-log fires and the Christmas turkey and the carols at the piano promised never came to pass.

  Sylvia Plath

  Christmas, Disappointment, Fire

  Sylvia Plath (2008). “The Bell Jar”, p.65, Faber & Faber

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• I want to make a memorial for our turkey. Never has a bird been so tortured to provide such a lousy dinner.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Memorial, Bird, Want

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.61, Macmillan

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• Turkeys energy bill due to imports will fall with the increase in use of renewable energy sources. We have no control over the prices of petroleum and natural gas.

  Ali Babacan

  Fall, Bills, Energy

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• Russia's now in the middle of a fierce confrontation with Turkey. And that's one of France's NATO allies.

  Corey Flintoff

  Russia, Allies, France

  "Between France And Russia, Presidents Seek Common Ground In Syria". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. November 26, 2015.

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• America's story is largely an immigrant story. That hasn't changed since the Pilgrims ate their first turkey some four hundred years ago, and they were the original boat people.

  Andrew Lam

  Years, America, People

  "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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