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• For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

  Ralph Nader

  Life, Years, Lines

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• I feel as fit as a bull moose.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Presidential, Moose, Fit

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• We have to get tough with the Russians. They don't know how to behave. They are like bulls in a china shop. They are only 25 years old. We are over 100 and the British are centuries older. We have got to teach them how to behave.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Years, Tough

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• An American diplomat is sometimes like a bull who carries his own china shop around with him.

  Winston Churchill

  Diplomats, Sometimes, China

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• I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick.

  Sarah Palin

  Funny, Mom, Mother

  Palin’s Speech at the Republican National Convention, www.nytimes.com. September 03, 2008.

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• I think the world is filled with so much hype and PR bull. Frankly, it all comes out in the end. Good or bad, I'd rather just let our accomplishments really speak for themselves.

  Bill Ford

  Thinking, Hype, Accomplishment

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• The last leg of a bull market always ends in hysteria; the last leg of a bear market always ends in panic.

  Jim Rogers

  Hysteria, Legs, Panic

  Jim Rogers (2014). “Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably in the World's Best Market”, p.46, John Wiley & Sons

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• When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Success, Eye, Elephants

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• Don Pedro - (...)'In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.' Benedick - The savage bull may, but if ever the sensible Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set them in my forehead, and let me be vildly painted; and in such great letters as they writes, 'Here is good horse for hire', let them signify under my sign, 'Here you may see Benedick the married man.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Writing, Men

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• It's like night and day... to do business, in Europe, there is no bull, they are pretty straightforward.

  Caprice Bourret

  Night, Europe, Straightforward

  "Caprice Bourret...the sexiest fish in the pond". www.askmen.com.

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• My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring.

  Geoffrey Fisher

  Holiday, Sight, Feelings

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• In time the savage bull sustains the yoke; In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure; In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak, In time the flint is pierced with softest shower, And she in time will fall from her disdain, And rue the sufferance of your friendly pain.

  Thomas Kyd

  Time, Pain, Fall

  c.1589 The Spanish Tragedy, act 2, sc.1.

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• Men are like bulls. They cannot resist the red sole.

  Christian Louboutin

  Men, Red, Sole

  "The True Story Of How Christian Louboutin Shoes Got Those Trademark Red Soles" by Tracey Lomrantz Lester, www.glamour.com. March 21, 2011.

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• Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Patience, Space, Challenges

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• Seeing the whales off James Price Point, mothers, babies, bull whales, seeing the count, going up into the thousands of these whales, the assurance that they will be ok with a mega port, mega ships and a huge factory ashore, is now clearly proven wrong.

  Bob Brown

  Mother, Baby, Whales

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• Bull markets go to people's heads. If you're a duck on a pond, and it's rising due to a downpour, you start going up in the world. But you think it's you, not the pond.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Ducks, People

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• If you feel tired midway through, give Neil Patrick Harris a Red Bull and throw some sheet music at him.

  Steve Martin

  Tired, Giving, Red Bull

  "An Open Letter to Eddie Murphy" by Steve Martin, www.stevemartin.com. September 20, 2011.

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• One of the criteria by which we measure the worth of public figures is whether or not their brand of bull is in step with the current Zeitgeist.

  John MacLachlan Gray

  Steps, Zeitgeist, Criteria

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• In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act. Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Believe, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.119

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• I am against war, against violence, against violent revolution, for peaceful settlement of differences, for nonviolent but nevertheless radical changes. Change is needed, and violence will not really change anything: at most it will only transfer power from one set of bull-headed authorities to another.

  Thomas Merton

  Peace, War, Differences

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• We only have one dog now. Calamity Jane had to be put down. She was very old, and her medicine no longer controlled her seizures. Dilly is five now, I think. He's a neutered American Pit Bull Terrier, very gentle, about the color of buckskin.

  Gene Wolfe

  Dog, Thinking, Color

  "Shadows of the New Sun: Wolfe on Writing/Writers on Wolfe". Book by Gene Wolfe, 2007.

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• Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Pain, Eye, Arrows

  Ellen Hopkins (2015). “Smoke”, p.469, Simon and Schuster

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• A man once told me that his dog was half pit bull and half Poodle. He claimed that it wasn't much good as a guard dog, but it was a vicious gossip.

  Stanley Coren

  Dog, Men, Gossip

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• You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.

  Brian Eno

  Eye, Arrows, Target

  "On gospel, Abba and the death of the record: an audience with Brian Eno". Interview with Paul Morley, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2010.

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• The Bible is like a bull fiddle, you can play almost any tune you want on it.

  Tommy Douglas

  Play, Tunes, Want

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