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• Don't save the canary. Fix the coal mine.

  Seth Godin

  Coal, Mines

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• The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Bird, Alarms

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• We have nothing to fear but our mothers.

  Anne Taintor

  Mother

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• Surfers are the canaries down the mine. Those of us who surf spend more time than anyone soaking in whatever the sea has become. We're suspended in consequences, you might say.

  Tim Winton

  Sea, Might, Surf

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

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• Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat-glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning?

  Frank N. Ikard

  Morning, Children, Animal

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• Women and gay people are the litmus test of whether a society is democratic and respecting human rights. We are the canaries in the mine.

  Peter Tatchell

  Gay, Rights, People

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• Fear sucks. Because you never know when it will attack. Sometimes it sneaks up behind you, giggling like your best girlfriend from seventh grade. Then it whacks you on the back of the head, takes you straight to your knees before you realize what hit you. Other times you can see it coming, just a dot on the horizon, but you're like a canary in a cage. All you can do is hang in there and hope you don't get motion sickness and puke all over the newspapers.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Girlfriend, Fear, Horizon

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• It seems to me that society usually wins. There are, to be sure, free spirits in the world, but their freedom, in the last analysis, is not much greater than that of a canary in a cage. They may leap from perch to perch; they may bathe and guzzle at their will; they may flap their wings and sing. But they are still in the cage, and soon or late it conquers them.

  H. L. Mencken

  Winning, Wings, Free Spirit

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• I think the canary left some feathers in there after you ate it.

  Ally Carter

  Thinking, Feathers, Left

  Ally Carter (2011). “Uncommon Criminals”, p.209, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.

  Bill Vaughan

  Thinking, Heaven, Entering

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• The image that I remember most of all is of the Fenerbahçe players storming into the stadium before kickoff. They were called the canaries because of their yellow jerseys. It was as if they, like canaries, were fluttering into the stadium out of a hole. I loved it. It was poetry.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Player, Yellow, Jersey

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or magenta. But the infinite gradations of color in a fine sunset - from salmon to canary to midnight blue - left him wordless.

  Alison Bechdel

  Father, Sunset, Blow

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• And he supposed it might not be the best of days. But then, he was flying the mails and was not expected to squat on the ground like a frightened canary every time there was a cloud in the sky. If a pilot showed an obvious preference for flying only in the best conditions he soon found himself looking for work. This was the way of his life and he had always ascended when others had found excuse to keep their feet on the ground.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Clouds, Sky, Feet

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• Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health. The great will not condescend to take anything seriously; all must be as gay as the song of a canary, though it were the building of cities, or the eradication of old and foolish churches and nations, which have cumbered the earth long thousands of years.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sports, Song, Gay

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.77, 谷月社

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• Knowing without any doubt that the newly elected cannot help but be his zombies, Obama is the cat who swallowed the canary.

  Judi McLeod

  Cat, Knowing, Zombie

  "You’re not in sovereign freedom any more. Get the picture?". canadafreepress.com. November 13, 2014.

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• Being in love, you know... it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out and get another to replace her.

  Sarah Waters

  Love You, Being In Love, Cages

  Sarah Waters (2011). “Tipping The Velvet”, p.213, Hachette UK

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• Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow.

  David Crosby

  Song, Long, Poetry

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• You should see what she’s wearing, Callie. It’s velvet. Canary yellow velvet. Turban to match. She looks like a furry banana.

  Sarah MacLean

  Yellow, Velvet, Looks

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• It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air, has caught a whiff of something lethal.

  Walker Percy

  Artist, Air, Tests

  Walker Percy (2011). “Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book”, p.64, Open Road Media

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• [Magnus] was wearing canary-yellow pajamas, and on his feet were green slippers with alien faces, complete with sproingy atennae.

  Cassandra Clare

  Yellow, Feet, Slippers

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine. It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.

  Alan Greenspan

  Moving, Together, Gold

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• Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come.

  Galway Kinnell

  Warning, Mines

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• She was wearing a canary-yellow two-piece bathing suit, one piece of which she would not actually be needing for another nine or ten years.

  J. D. Salinger

  Years, Two, Yellow

  J. D. SALINGER (1968). “FOR ESME- WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR”

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• Birds are, especially canaries, are super sensitive to hydrogen sulfide and sour gas.

  David Suzuki

  Bird, Hydrogen, Sensitive

  "Now" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. August 29, 2003.

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• Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse's breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature's laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages, so much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . . Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.

  Marquis de Sade

  Men, Thinking, Animal

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