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• Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water. ... It preserves things from corruption - even as it corrodes other things with its bite. A little of it fertilizes the land; a lot sterilizes it.

  Margaret Visser

  Men, Rocks, Land

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• The world doesn't go around on love between men and women. Lovers get very little done. But friends do. When you are past middle life - and I hope you have the rich experience of love along the way - don't think everything is all over. Don't regret the vanished cocktail when the stuffed turkey is about to come in. Flip out your napkin and bite into it! Friends you can gather around you in the later years of life are worth the whole thing.

  Marie Dressler

  Regret, Past, Love Is

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• Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Cooking, Bait

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.94

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• Lucy took a single plain donut from the bag and held it for me to take a bite. Tender and light and still warm from the frying. Not too sugary.

  Robert Crais

  Food, Light, Cooking

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• Timid dogs more eagerly bark than bite.

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Dog, Bark

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• The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it - it's as immediate and as superficial as that.

  Matthew Collings

  Art, Mass Culture, Sound

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• As the heated debate continues, it will be important that nonproliferation experts play a critical role in the discourse. Science-based statements, not snarky sound bites, should be the weapons of choice.

  David Corn

  Play, Choices, Important

  "The Iranian Nuclear Deal: What the Experts Are Saying" by David Corn, www.motherjones.com. April 3, 2015.

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• The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food--it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on.

  George Eliot

  Taste, Firsts, Unbearable

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.255, Wordsworth Editions

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• The dog which remembers only to bark and not to bite, and is led through the streets as a lady's pet, is only a degenerate wolf.

  Lin Yutang

  Dog, Pet, Degenerates

  Yutang Lin (1939). “My country and my people”

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• A dog can bite you but you must not bite the dog! Your every movement in life must be peaceful; otherwise you lose your ethical superiority! Nonviolent civil disobedience is a genius; no power can beat it; use it when necessary!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Dog, Peaceful

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• I go on the road all the time, but I'm only performing for two hours a night, and then I'll do a meet-and-greet, and then I'll get a bite to eat, get drunk, pass out, wake up the next day, sleeping the next day, sleeping off the hangover, and then I'm in the next city.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Hangover, Sleep, Night

  "Comedian Gabriel Iglesias bares his soul in 'The Fluffy Movie'". Interview with Angela Dawson, www.axs.com. July 24, 2014.

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• We live in an age where people are like, "I'd love to catch up. Maybe text me later? But don't call because I don't really listen to my messages. But if you text me..." We've displaced interaction into sound bites and untethered phrases and sentences that come up on the phone as Twitter feed.

  Marc Maron

  Phones, People, Age

  "Q&A: Marc Maron on the Decline of Conversation, TV Stardom, Oligarchs, Self-Doubt & Cats". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. May 2, 2013.

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• I don't believe that we are what we do although many thinkers argue otherwise. I believe that what we do is, very often, a poor approximation of what we are -- an imperfect manifestation of a much better totality. Even the best of us sometimes bite off, as it were, less than we can chew.

  Donald Barthelme

  Believe, Arguing, Action

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• I, a Laconian dog, can bite again: Yes, I can make the Daunian tiger flee, Much more a bragging, foul-mouth'd whelp like thee.

  Henry Kirke White

  Dog, Yes I Can, Mouths

  Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey (1822). “The Remains of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham, Late of St. John's College, Cambridge”, p.73

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• Be at peace, my friend. One thing I have learnt about Death is that his bark is worse than his bite.

  David Gemmell

  Bark, My Friends, One Thing

  David Gemmell (2011). “Legend”, p.89, Hachette UK

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• In the 1970s vampires were pretty boring. The scariest vampire was Count Chocula. One bite of Count Chocula and you were cursed with Type 2 diabetes.

  Craig Ferguson

  Type 2 Diabetes, Vampire, Boring

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• In my dreams I gorge on chocolates, I roll in chocolates, and their texture is not brittle but soft as flesh, like a thousand mouths on my body, devouring me in fluttering small bites. To die beneath their tender gluttony seems the culmination of every temptation I have ever known.

  Joanne Harris

  Dream, Temptation, Chocolate

  Joanne Harris (2000). “Chocolat”, p.188, Penguin

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• I never thought that I would be labeled something like Generation X because of that movie ( Reality Bites ). I had no idea going into it, and it wasn't a label I could relate to.

  Ethan Hawke

  Reality, Ideas, Would Be

  "The Payoff for Ethan Hawke" by Dana Kennedy, www.nytimes.com. April 14, 2002.

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• Love is impossible without bite marks.

  Nelson Rodrigues

  Love Is, Impossible, Mark

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• Reality bites, and I've got the teeth marks to prove it.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Reality, Teeth, Mark

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• You consume me I don't even fight Oh, I feel intoxicated... But beware I bite.

  Traci Lords

  Fighting, Feels, Intoxicated

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• The very serpents bite their tails; the bees forget to sting, For a language so celestial setteth up a wondering. And the touch of absent mindedness is more than any line, Since direction counts for nothing when the gods set up a sign.

  Nathalia Crane

  Tails, Lines, Bees

  Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”

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• The Big-Media collective, however, is slow, stupid and shackled by ideology. Reality must bite them before they’ll recognize it, much less report it.

  Ilana Mercer

  Stupid, Reality, Media

  "President Pinicchio's Growing Proboscis". www.wnd.com. October 31, 2013.

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• You can hit a nail on the head, or cause a machine to do so, and get a fairly predictable result. Hit a dog on the head, and it will either dodge, bite back, or die, but it will never again react in the same way. We can predict only those things we set up to be predictable, not what we encounter in the real world of living and reactive processes.

  Bill Mollison

  Dog, Real, Encounters

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• America is dumb, it's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you, aggressive.

  Johnny Depp

  Hurt, America, Dumb

  "Johnny Depp: U.S. is like a stupid puppy". edition.cnn.com. September 3, 2003.

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