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• Forbear, thou great good husband, little ant.

  Richard Lovelace

  Husband, Littles, Insects

  'The Ant'

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• Insects influenced the shape of the Australian house. Some, like the white ant and lthe Lyctus borer, worked quietly and invisibly until a little shower of yellow dust or a sudden collapse indicated their presence. Others, like the mosquito and housefly, were less dangerous and more objectionable. The former type influenced structure in minor ways; the latter affected planning to a major degree.

  Robin Boyd

  Dust, Yellow, White

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• The lancet fluke (Dicrocoelium) infects the brain of ants by taking control and driving them to climb to the top of a blade of grass where they can be eaten by a cow. The ingested fluke then lays eggs in the cow gut. Eventually, the eggs exit the cow, and hungry snails eat the dung (and fluke eggs). The fluke enters the snail's digestive gland and gets excreted in sticky slime full of a seething mass of flukes to be drunk by ants as a source of moisture.

  Darrel Ray

  Eggs, Drunk, Brain

  "The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture". Book by Darrel Ray, 2009.

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• The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later feast, the bees that filled the comb with honey, the ants that laid up stores for a rainy day - these were among the first creators of civilization. It was they....who taught our ancestors the art of providing for tomorrow out of the surplus of today, or of preparing for winter in summer's time of plenty.

  Will Durant

  Summer, Dog, Art

  Will Durant (2011). “Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya - the Papunya Artists - performed a dance for me: the Honey Ant dance. They'd never done it for anyone else. They honoured me with a ceremonial stick that signifies the story of the land.

  Quentin Bryce

  Artist, Land, Leader

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• We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs.

  Kanye West

  Race, Oxford, Lectures

  Guest Lecture at Oxford University, www.vulture.com. March 2, 2015.

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• Landscape planners will have the opportunity to make sculptured roofscapes, so that cities appear to be verdant hills and valleys. Streets will become shady routes carved through the undergrowth. Roofs will become mountain tops. People will become ants.

  Tom Turner

  Opportunity, Cities, People

  Tom Turner (2014). “City as Landscape: A Post Post-Modern View of Design and Planning”, p.98, Taylor & Francis

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• I kinda always wanted to be an ant.

  Tyler Joseph

  Wanted

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• A prisoner lived in solitary confinement for years. He saw and spoke to no one and his meals were served through an opening in the wall. One day an ant came into his cell. The man contemplated it in fascination as it crawled around the room. He held it in the palm of his hand the better to observe it, gave it a grain or two, and kept it under his tin cup at night. One day it suddenly struck him that it had taken him ten long years of solitary confinement to open his eyes to the loveliness of an ant.

  Anthony de Mello

  Wall, Taken, Eye

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• The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . .

  Susan Sontag

  Hero, Culture, Civilisation

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• Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.

  John Donne

  Men, Superiority

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.491

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• I will confess that I have no more sense of what goes on in the mind of mankind than I have for the mind of an ant.

  Lewis Thomas

  Mind, Goes On, Mankind

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Innovations, free thinking is blowing like a storm; those that stand in front of it, ignorant scholars like you, false scientists, perverse conservatives, obstinate goats, resisting mules are being crushed under the weight of these innovations. You are nothing but ants standing in front of the giants; nothing but chicks trying to challenge roaring volcanoes!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ignorance, Science, Thinking

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• Everything is a hero: A lighthouse which gives light to us; weeds that provide shelter to little insects; a water drop which quenches a thirsty ant! Everything that helps us to live is a hero!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Weed, Hero, Light

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• I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.

  Dick Cavett

  Practice, Ideas, Chocolate

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• Nothing is more important than saving ... the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels. The humans? The planet does not need humans.

  James Lee

  Squirrels, Turtles, Sharks

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• Who could believe an ant in theory? A giraffe in blueprint? Ten thousand doctors of what's possible Could reason half the jungle out of being.

  John Ciardi

  Believe, Animal, Doctors

  John Ciardi, Edward M. Cifelli (1997). “The collected poems of John Ciardi”, Univ of Arkansas Pr

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• Every time a significant discovery is being made one sets in motion a tremendous activity in laboratories and industrial enterprises throughout the world. It is like the ant who suddenly finds food and walks back to the anthill while sending out material called food attracting substance. The other ants follow the path immediately in order to benefit from the finding and continue to do so as long as the supply is rich.

  Bengt I. Samuelsson

  Science, Discovery, Order

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• Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. He is both an unfinished animal and an unfinished man. It is this incurable unfinishedness which sets man apart from other living things. For, in the attempt to finish himself, man becomes a creator. Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.

  Eric Hoffer

  Animal, Men, Perfect

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Giving no pain to any creature, let him slowly accumulate spiritual merit, for the sake ,of acquiring a companion to the next world, just as the white ant ,gradually raises its hill.

  Guru Nanak

  Spiritual, Pain, White

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• Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Bird, Spiders

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1887). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”

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• Lies are ants, the truth is the sun, and questions are a magnifying glass waiting to be picked up by the curious.

  Craig Stone

  Lying, Glasses, Waiting

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• After carrying and collecting like the ant, Enjoy-before the grave worm devours thee.

  Bill Vaughan

  Pleasure, Graves, Thee

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• When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.

  Idries Shah

  Taken, Meat, Lions

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.72, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered. When our race has reached its ultimate achievements, and the stars themselves are scattered no more widely than the seed of Adam, even then we shall still be like ants crawling on the face of the Earth. The ants have covered the world, but have they conquered it - for what do their countless colonies know of it, or of each other?

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Stars, Race, Space

  "We'll Never Conquer Space" by Arthur C. Clarke, Science Digest, June 1960.

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