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• Les vrais philosophes sont comme les e  le  phants, qui en marchant ne posent jamais le second pied a'   terre que le premier ne soit bien affermi. True philosophers are like elephants, who when walking never placetheir second footontheground untilthefirst is steady.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Philosopher, Steady, Walking

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• One of the things that sets the Bible apart from all other ancient religious writings is its scientific accuracy. Without exception, every other ancient religious writing contains certain scientific errors. For example, Muhammad taught in the Qur'an that the sun descends down into a muddy spring. The Hindu Vedas state that the Earth is flat and triangular, that earthquakes are caused by elephants shaking themselves under it. You'll never read absurd statements like those in the Bible.

  Charlie Campbell

  Bible, Religious, Spring

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• Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations.

  Bill Bryson

  Whales, Brain, Doe

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.443, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It was six men of Hindustan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind) That each by observation Might satisfy the mind.

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Men, Mind, Might

  John Godfrey Saxe (1873). “The Poems of John Godfrey Saxe”, p.259

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• I went to University in 1991, and I remember, nobody thought of India. I remember conversations where people would laugh and say, "Do you have elephants on the road?" Nobody is saying that today.

  Rahul Gandhi

  People, Laughing, India

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• China is referred to as the 'dragon' and India as an 'elephant'. But we are not an elephant, we are a 'beehive'.

  Rahul Gandhi

  Dragons, India, China

  "India is a 'beehive', Rahul Gandhi tells India Inc". www.ndtv.com. April 4, 2013.

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• There were times, especially when I was traveling for 'Eat, Pray, Love,' when, I swear to God, I would feel this weight of my female ancestors, all those Swedish farmwives from beyond the grave who were like, 'Go! Go to Naples! Eat more pizza! Go to India, ride an elephant! Do it! Swim in the Indian Ocean. Read those books. Learn a language.'

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Ocean, Book, Swear To God

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• Guess who has PE first hour? This is so unfair. I start the day off perspiring like an elephant in heat. Don't the people who make up our schedule understand body odor? Don't they understand frizzy hair? ~Vee

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Hair, People, Odor

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• It's one thing to be helpless as one tries to lace a corset or to mount an elephant, quite another to be helpless as a bandit pushes a black steel knife against the flesh of your throat while his brother comes to join him.

  John Speed

  Brother, Knives, Black

  John Speed (2007). “The Temple Dancer: A Novel of India”, p.86, Macmillan

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• To keep a man a slave you do much the same as the cruel circus masters did to the elephant around the turn of last century. Clamp heavy chains around their legs and stake them to the ground. Then beat and terrorize them. After a while you no longer even have to stake the chain; the elephant gives up and just the mere rattle of the chain convinces the elephant there is no hope, so they give up and do whatever it is the circus requires.

  Glenn Beck

  Giving Up, Men, Legs

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• There's enough sedative in these darts to bring down a werewolf, which is exactly what we're hunting. Why would we want to bring down an elephant if we're not hunting elephants?

  Derek Landy

  Hunting, Want, Enough

  Derek Landy (2012). “Kingdom of the Wicked (Skulduggery Pleasant, Book 7)”, p.21, HarperCollins UK

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• Band of Skulls is joining Cage the Elephant as my new musical caffeine.

  Michael Koryta

  Skulls, Musical, Joining

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• The thing about movie musicals is that there have been some brilliant ones, but when they're bad, they're really bad - big white elephants.

  Rob Marshall

  White, Brilliant, Bigs

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• To achieve this density of a neutron star at home, just cram a herd of 50 million elephants into the volume of a thimble.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Home, Science

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• In the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines; but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant disporting.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Shining, Awkward, Fool

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• I'm like an elephant, ok? If I walk into a room, it's like, OK, he's in there.

  Aziz Ansari

  Rooms, Walks, Ifs

  "Fictional character: Tom Haverford". "Parks and Recreation/ The Fight" (Season 3, Episode 13), 2011.

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• Our problem with limited resources is not primarily overpopulation; it is greed. Our problem with pollution is not the invention of fluorocarbons or mass transport; it is irresponsibility. The loss of an acre of forest every second, the mass slaughter of elephants for their ivory, the extinction of entire species of plants, insects and animals all over the world is not something that "just happens" because there are more of us human beings. It happens because the race of ruling beings put in charge has almost wholly lost its sense of stewardship. We have turned away from God.

  Winkie Pratney

  Loss, Animal, Race

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• For me to put a look together, if it's going to be a boy look or a girl look or whatever, is quite a tricky thing to do. I'm not doing drag because drag is seen in a certain way and my comedy has got zero to do with what I'm wearing. I could wear an elephant suit and say the same thing.

  Eddie Izzard

  Girl, Zero, Boys

  "Eddie Izzard, Force Of Nature". Interview with Gerry Visco, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 19, 2014.

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• People of conscience in our leadership in Washington have been scared off by the right and the fossil fuel lobbies. They won't even use the term "sustainability" or "climate change" in an energy bill, which is ludicrous on its face. It completely ignores the elephant in the room that we're all dealing with. The average American doesn't even believe climate change is real, they think it's all a hoax.

  James Cameron

  Real, Believe, Thinking

  "James Cameron: The ‘Avatar’ sequel will dive into the oceans of Pandora". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. April 20, 2010.

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• Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.

  Gloria Steinem

  Wise, Intelligent, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'll do anything to keep everyone laughing. Things get too intense on film sets. I remember on The Elephant Man, I used to imitate a cat without moving my lips. David Lynch would say, "Cut! Sorry, we've got a noise somewhere on set." Everyone would be looking around for this cat.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Sorry, Moving, Cat

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• Soft fantasy worlds have a much looser cause-and-effect relationship. Alchemists can turn lead into gold and nobody wonders about how it will impact the currency system. Someone waves a wand and turns an elephant into a mouse and nobody worries about conservation of mass.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Impact, Worry, Alchemist

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• Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Army, Employers, Ganging Up

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works”

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• So oft in theologic wars, The disputants, I ween, Rail on in utter ignorance Of what each other mean, And prate about an Elephant Not one of them has seen!

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Religious, War, Ignorance

  John Godfrey Saxe (1873). “The Poems of John Godfrey Saxe”, p.261

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• What ever happened to freak shows? Back in the twenties when elephant man was born at least he had a job waiting for him.

  Doug Stanhope

  Jobs, Men, Waiting

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