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• Wanderers, Dublin's oldest rugby club, has been described more than once as the club of the Church and the Army: the wags added
  "...unfortunately the wrong Church and the wrong Army."

  Gemma Hussey

  Army, Insulting, Church

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• The social intuitionist model offers an explanation of why moral and political arguments are so frustrating: because moral reasons are the tail wagged by the intuitive dog. A dog’s tail wags to communicate. You can’t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can’t change people’s minds by utterly refuting their arguments.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Dog, People, Political

  Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.48, Vintage

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• Certain movies like 'Wag The Dog,' we used improv on every scene that we did. Pretty much, we would shoot from the script and then some stuff that we came up with in rehearsal, and then we'd have at least one or two takes where we completely went off the script and just flew by the seat of our pants.

  Denis Leary

  Dog, Two, Rehearsal

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 22, 2005.

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• Everything about the left is perception, manipulation, and lies. Everything. Everything is 'Wag the Dog.' Everything is a structured deception.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dog, Lying, Deception

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• She [Alice] went on "And how do you know that you're mad?" "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?" "I suppose so," said Alice. "Well, then," the Cat went on, "you see, a dog growls when it's angry, and wags it's tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad."

  Lewis Carroll

  Dog, Cat, Mad

  "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". Book by Lewis Carroll (Chapter VI: Pig and Pepper), November 26, 1865.

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• And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye,
  Says very wisely, "It is ten o'clock:
  Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags."

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Eye, World

  William Shakespeare, Michael Hattaway (2009). “As You Like It”, p.133, Cambridge University Press

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• ... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

  George Eliot

  Distance, Men, Squares

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.255, Penguin

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• Does political correctness have a good side? Yes, it does, for it makes us re-examine attitudes, and that is always useful. The trouble is that, with all popular movements, the lunatic fringe so quickly ceases to be a fringe; the tail begins to wag the dog. For every woman or man who is quietly and sensibly using the idea to examine our assumptions, there are twenty rabble-rousers whose real motive is desire for power over others. The fact that they see themselves as antiracists or feminists or whatever does not make them any less rabble-rousers.

  Doris Lessing

  Dog, Attitude, Real

  "Unexamined Mental Attitudes Left Behind By Communism" by Doris Lessing in "Our Country, Our Culture: The Politics of Political Correctness" edited by Edith Kurzweil and William Philips, 1994.

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• We may smile and the dog may wag the tail, but in essence, we have a set program and those programs are similar across individuals in the species.

  Antonio Damasio

  Dog, Essence, Tails

  Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• All live by seeming.
  The beggar begs with it, and the gay courtier
  Gains land and title, rank and rule, by seeming;
  The clergy scorn it not, and the bold soldier
  Will eke with it his service.--All admit it,
  All practise it; and he who is content
  With showing what he is, shall have small credit
  In church, or camp, or state.--So wags the world.

  Walter Scott

  Gay, Land, Hypocrisy

  sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) (1862). “The Waverley novels. 25 vols.”, p.260

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• A man's personality is matured only when he appropriates the truth, whether it is spoken by Balaam's ass or a sniggering wag or an apostle or an angel.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Angel, Men, Personality

  "Søren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers: Autobiographical, 1829-1848". Book by Søren Kierkegaard and Gregor Malantschuk, p. 226, Journals IV A 87 (1843), 1978.

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• I plead guilty to that when I was young pastor. In one of my churches I changed so much, one old wag said I'd changed everything in the church except the signs on the bathroom doors! I could have used a little more wisdom. And common sense.

  Jerry Vines

  Doors, Common Sense, Church

  Source: sbctoday.com

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• Well, there were definitely elements of my rise in radio that had to do with my being black. But going back as far as Walter Winchell, Army Archerd and Hedda Hopper, legendary wags would grab a radio microphone and talk about what Errol Flynn and other stars were up to.

  Wendy Williams

  Stars, Army, Black

  Source: aalbc.com

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• No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Tongue, Pens, Mortals

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.17

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• In a theatre it happened that a fire started off stage. The clown came out to tell the audience. They thought it was a joke and applauded. He told them again, and they became still more hilarious. This is the way, I suppose, that the world will be destroyed-amid the universal hilarity of wits and wags who think it is all a joke.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Thinking, Fire, Theatre

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• In fact, now I come to think of it, do we decide questions, at all? We decide answers, no doubt: but surely the questions decide us? It is the dog, you know, that wags the tail--not the tail that wags the dog.

  Lewis Carroll

  Dog, Thinking, Doubt

  Lewis Carroll, Morton Norton Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green (1979). “The letters of Lewis Carroll”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• You wags that judge by rote, and damn by rule.

  Thomas Otway

  Judging, Damn

  1677 Titus and Berenice, prologue.

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• We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parents twain in the yelk of an addled egg. We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart, But the devil whoops, as he whooped of old; It's clever, but is it art?

  Rudyard Kipling

  Dog, Art, Horse

  'The Conundrum of the Workshops' (1892)

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• Some men promise to keep your secret and yet reveal it without knowing they are doing so; they do not wag their lips, and yet they are understood; it is read on their brow and in their eyes; it is seen through their breast; they are transparent.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Eye, Men, Knowing

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• Wag the world how it will, Leaves must be green in Spring.

  Herman Melville

  Spring, World, Green

  Herman Melville (1866). “Battle-pieces and aspects of the war [poems].”, p.68

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• Some sigh for this and that; My wishes don't go far; The world may wag at will, So I have my cigar.

  Thomas Hood

  Wish, World, May

  Thomas Hood, Thomas Hood (Jr.) (1867). “The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood”, p.193

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• You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn.

  T. H. White

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.161, Penguin

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• 

  The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

  Andy Rooney

  Inspirational, Funny, Dog

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• The Coalition's message of jobs and growth is resonating very, very strongly in North and Central Queensland and one thing they're particularly fearful of is the possibility of a Green-Labor government, a government in which the Green tail wags the Labor dog.

  George Brandis

  Dog, Jobs, Government

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I have not watched WAGs World, I have not watched the BBC's Upstairs, Downstairs, either. It would be Downton Abbey, I think.

  Theresa May

  Thinking, Would Be, World

  "The Conservative Party’s always stood in every seat, and I think it’s important to us". Interview with Paul Goodman and Mark Fox, conservativehome.blogs.com. February 16, 2011.

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