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• Color and bite permeate a language designed to rally many men, to destroy some, and to change the minds of others.

  William Safire

  Men, Color, Mind

  1968 Safire's Political Dictionary, introduction.

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• Let those find fault whose wit's so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all; Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below. Fops may have leave to level all they can; As pigmies would be glad to lop a man. Half-wits are fleas; so little and so light, We scarce could know they live, but that they bite.

  John Dryden

  Men, Thinking, Errors

  John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.433

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• My friends, look to Christ, and not to yourselves. That is what is the matter with a great many sinners; instead of looking to Christ, they are looking at the bite of sin.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Looks, Matter, Sin

  Dwight L. Moody (2015). “What Must I Do To Be Saved?”, p.1, Editora Dracaena

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• Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.

  Criss Jami

  Hair, Tolerance, Tears

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.67, Criss Jami

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• Some days, 24 hours is too much to stay put in, so I take the day hour by hour, moment by moment. I break the task, the challenge, the fear into small, bite-size pieces. I can handle a piece of fear, depression, anger, pain, sadness, loneliness, illness. I actually put my hands up to my face, one next to each eye, like blinders on a horse.

  Regina Brett

  Horse, Pain, Loneliness

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• The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dog, Stupidity, Stones

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.49, Penguin

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• I'm Jewish, but my mom's Catholic, so the guilt area is covered. I have the highest expectations, along with the lowest. I tried to put as much of myself as possible in Reality Bites, but in terms of my humor, I'm still trying to figure out what my sensibility is. It's a process, really. I don't feel like I have a very clear idea of what I'm supposed to be, or even of how people perceive me, except that I got put into this Generation X file.

  Ben Stiller

  Mom, Reality, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The way to get through anything mentally painful is to take it a little at a time. The mind can't handle dealing with a massive iceberg of pain in front of it, but it can deal with short nuggets that will come to an end. So instead of thinking, Ugh, I've got twenty-four miles to go, focus on making it to the next telephone pole in the distance. Whether you're running twenty or one hundred and twenty miles at a time, the distance has to be tackled mentally and physically one mile at a time. The ability to compartmentalize pain into these small bite sizes is key.

  Joe De Sena

  Running, Pain, Distance

  Joe De Sena (2014). “Spartan Up!: A Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Peak Performance in Life”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• Barking dogs don't bite, but they themselves don't know it.

  Sholom Aleichem

  Dog, Knows, Barking Dogs

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• I swear to much for this to be a television special. Did you guys ever have your mouth washed out with soap? My mom did that to me a lot. I think I swear more because of it. I started liking the taste of soap, I would eat it just to spite her. (pause) I'd bite off bars of soap.

  Andrew McMahon

  Mom, Thinking, Guy

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• The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life.

  John Silber

  Political, Sound, Propaganda

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• Clouseau: Does yer dewg bite? Inn Keeper: No Clouseau: Nice Doggy (bends down to pet a dachshund - it snarls and bites him) I thought you said yer dewg did not bite! Inn Keeper: Zat . . . iz not my dog!

  Peter Sellers

  Dog, Nice, Pet

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• Today the salaries of stars are astronomical in comparison with the 20's, but the high cost of today's living and taxes takes a huge bite out of these salaries.

  Pola Negri

  Stars, Salary, Cost

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• The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.

  Kato Kaelin

  Stupid, Media, Sound

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• Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.

  Joy Harjo

  Sweet, Laughing, Kitchen

  "The Woman Who Fell From the Sky". Book by Joy Harjo, www.npr.org. 1994.

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• Don't bite the hand that has your allowance in it.

  Paul Dickson

  Hands, Advice, Allowance

  Paul Dickson (2014). “The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects”, p.36, Courier Corporation

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• Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.

  Diogenes

  Dog, Order, Enemy

  "Anthology (Book 3)". Book by Joannes Stobaeus, 1536.

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• A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight.

  Martin Luther

  Fighting, Soldier, Shepherds

  Martin Luther (1818). “The familiar discourses of dr. Martin Luther, tr. by H. Bell”, p.241

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• Good scholars struggle to understand the world in an integral way (pedants bite off tiny bits and worry them to death). These visions of reality [...] demand our respect, for they are an intellectual's only birthright. They are often entirely wrong and always flawed in serious ways, but they must be understood honorably and not subjected to mayhem by the excision of patches.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Struggle, Reality, Worry

  Stephen Jay Gould (1993). “Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history”, Vintage

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• When I'm on TV, I'm often talking to a conservative host. I may have another conservative arguing with me. You've got very limited time, and you're using 'sound-bite' type language.

  Juan Williams

  Talking, Sound, Limited Time

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• Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.

  Agatha Christie

  Anger, Safety, Doe

  Agatha Christie (1951). “The Under Dog: And Other Stories”, New York, Dodd, Mead [1951

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• You really have one bite at the apple.

  Mark Shields

  Apples

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you can only wave your hand and leave.

  Anton Chekhov

  Philosophy, Hands, Guy

  "Ionych". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1898.

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• Our legal system, including the police, is anti-Dalit and anti-poor. The death penalty laws' wrathful majesty, in blood-shot equality, deals the fatal blow on the poor not the rich, the pariah not the brahmin, the black not the white, the underdog not the top dog, the dissenter not the conformist. . . The law barks at all but bites only the poor, the powerless, the illiterate, the ignorant.

  V. R. Krishna Iyer

  Dog, Blow, Blood

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• Well, even to this day, if I smell a Big Mac, I'm like Pavlov's dog. My mouth starts watering immediately, like, 'Man, that is so good,' but I can't take a bite of it.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Dog, Good Day, Men

  Interview With Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 4, 2004.

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