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• The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.

  Aldous Huxley

  Nature, Flavor, May

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• The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed, slow-witted, toothy rodent known to bite off it's own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees.

  June Callwood

  Humorous, Fall, Eagles

  June Callwood (1981). “Portrait of Canada”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• The belief is growing on me that the disease is communicated by the bite of the mosquito. ... She always injects a small quantity of fluid with her bite-what if the parasites get into the system in this manner.

  Ronald Ross

  What If, Mosquitoes, Growing

  Sir Ronald Ross (1988). “The Great Malaria Problem and Its Solution”

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• There is something about the presence of a cat... that seems to take the bite out of being alone.

  Louis J. Camuti

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

  Louis J. Camuti, Lloyd Alexander (1962). “Park Avenue Vet”

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• Here's how it is: I feel guilty about every single bite of food that goes into my mouth.

  Marian Keyes

  Mouths, Guilty, Feels

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• Rough boys I wanna bite and kiss you.

  Pete Townshend

  Kissing, Boys, Social Taboos

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• Be circumspect how you offend schollers, for knowe, a serpent tooth bites not so ill, as dooth a schollers angrie quill.

  John Florio

  Power, Teeth, Management

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• I still bite my nails.

  Jesse McCartney

  Nails, Stills

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• One of my modeling bookers told me that the most important thing is to try to be vigilant about taking care of yourself. Get sleep, don't be afraid to trim your hair even if you're trying to grow it out, don't bite your fingernails, and stay in shape. A lot of it is in the little things.

  Julia Jones

  Sleep, Hair, Important

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• If you're out, and starving, and need a bite to eat, then you need fast food.

  Nicholas Hoult

  Needs, Fast Food, Starving

  "My favourite table". Interview With Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2007.

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• The danger with running for president is sooner or later some sound bite is going hit.

  Darrell Hammond

  Running, President, Sound

  "CNN 25 'They Said What' - Top 25 Soundbites". "CNN Presents" with Tony Harris and Larry King, edition.cnn.com. November 26, 2005.

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• You can only bite off so much, so you gotta know what you want to do.

  Lesley Gore

  Want, What You Want, Knows

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• I try and live my life in bite-size chunks.

  Craig Ferguson

  Trying, Size, Living My Life

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• "Try another Subtraction sum. Take a bone from a dog: what remains?" [asked the Red Queen] Alice considered. "The bone wouldn't remain, of course, if I took it-and the dog wouldn't remain; it would come to bite me-and I'm sure I shouldn't remain!" "Then you think nothing would remain?" said the Red Queen. "I think that's the answer." "Wrong, as usual," said the Red Queen, "the dog's temper would remain."

  Lewis Carroll

  Dog, Queens, Science

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Through the Looking-Glass (Alice): Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.87, 谷月社

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• Everything comes to us in fifteen-second sound bites and photo opportunities. All possibility for ambiguity - the most precious trait of any adequate analysis - is erased.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Opportunity, Sound, Analysis

  Stephen Jay Gould (1991). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• Donnie and Marie can both take a bite.

  Frank Zappa

  Musical, Marie

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• The battles, the fights, the bruises, the bites. That's the way true love grows.

  Ray Davies

  Love, Fighting, Battle

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• Stick a needle in your arm, you bite the dust, you buy the farm.

  Alice Cooper

  Dust, Alcohol, Drug

  Song: Hey Stoopid, Album: Hey Stoopid, 1991

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• I was hungry and went out for a bite, ran into a chum with a bottle of rum and we wound up drinking all night.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Drinking, Night, Alcohol

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• Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Men, White

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1491, Delphi Classics

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• Rueful, bittersweet, funny, written with tenderness and bite, Merrill Feitell's stories, like so many classic short stories, are made from the plain and painful stuff of this world, and haunted by the possibility, and the impossibility, of a better one.

  Michael Chabon

  Stories, World, Stuff

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• Mad, is he? Then I hope that he will bite some of my other generals!

  George III

  War, History, Mad

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• Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Men, Thinking, Make You Think

  "Unkempt Thoughts". Book by Stanisław Jerzy Lec, translated by Jacek Galazka, 1962.

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• You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession. For instance, if a man has decided that he is going to bite off your nose no matter what happens to him in the process, the chances are he will succeed in doing it. He may be severely beaten up, too, but that will not stop him from carrying out his objective. That is the real fighter.

  Bruce Lee

  Determination, Real, Fighting

  "The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee" by John Little, (p. 161), 1996.

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• Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.

  Desmond Morris

  Funny, Science, Talking

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