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• Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.

  Saadi

  Sweet, Hair, Tongue

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• May an elephant caress you with his toes

  'Little' Jimmy Dickens

  May, Toes, Caress

  Song: May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose

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• General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver. General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Crush, Powerful, Men

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.289, Taylor & Francis

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• So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us. Because the planet doesn't need to be saved. It doesn't care if all the squirrels, elephants, and trees die and there's just a couple of amoebas floating around at the poles.

  Dave Matthews

  Couple, Mean, Squirrels

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• Isimangaliso must be the only place on the globe where the oldest land mammal (rhinoceros) and the world biggest terrestrial mammal (elephant) share an ecosystem with the world's oldest fish (coelacanth) and the world's biggest marine mammal (whale)

  Nelson Mandela

  Marine, Whales, Land

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• You are obvious, boy. You are difficult to miss. If you came to me in company with a purple lion, a green elephant, and a scarlet unicorn astride which was the King of England in his Royal Robes, I do believe that it is you and you alone that people would stare at, dismissing the others as minor irrelevancies.

  Neil Gaiman

  Kings, Believe, Boys

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.69, A&C Black

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• We came here for a small, informal meeting. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Circus, Wells, Meetings

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.190, Penguin

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• On the other couch a women sits with a young boy looking through a picture book about Babar the Elephant. When I find a magazine and I lean back to start reading it, I can see the women watching me out of the corner of her eye. She moves closer to the child and she leans over and kisses his forehead. I know why she does it and i don't blame her.

  James Frey

  Children, Moving, Book

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.57, Anchor

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• You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra; By alchemy you may learn your livelihood; You may wander through the universe incognito; Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful; You may walk in water and live in fire; But control of the mind is better and more difficult.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Fire, Play, Mad

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• Will looked up angrily, shaking his head in disbelief. Will you shut up? he said tautly. Horace shrugged in apology. 'I'm sorry' he said, I sneezed. A person can't help it when they sneeze. Perhaps not. But you could try to make it sound a little less like an elephant trumpeting in agony; Will told him.

  John Flanagan

  Sorry, Apology, Agony

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• Her life was a slow realization that the world was not for her and that for whatever reason she would never be happy and honest at the same time. She felt as if she were brimming always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release. table ivory elephant charm rainbow onion hairdo violence melodrama honey...None of it moved her. She addressed the world honestly searching for something deserving of the volumes of love she knew she had within her but to each she would have to say I don't love you.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Love You, Ivory, Rainbow

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• A man would rather be trampled by elephants on fire than tell you he's just not that into you.

  Greg Behrendt

  Men, Fire

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• Mythologically speaking, if there's anything I hate worse than trios of old ladies, it's bulls. Last summer, I fought the Minotaur on top of Half-Blood Hill. This time what I saw up there was even worse: two bulls. And not just regular bulls - bronze ones the size of elephants. And even that wasn't bad enough. Naturally they had to breathe fire, too.

  Rick Riordan

  Summer, Hate, Fire

  Rick Riordan (2008). “Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters”, p.34, Penguin UK

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• Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowly it walked to the mutilated body and looked down. With its sinuous trunk it struck the huge corpse; then it reached up, broke some leafy branches with a snap, and draped them over the mass of torn thick flesh. Finally it tilted its massive head, raised its trunk, and roared into the empty landscape.

  Lois Lowry

  Tree, Body, Branches

  Lois Lowry (1993). “The Giver”, Laurel Leaf

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• Think! Think and wonder. Wonder and think. How much water can 55 elephants drink?

  Dr. Seuss

  Education, Math, Thinking

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• OK, the rule is, you can [make love to] an elephant if you want to, but if you do you can't cover the circus.

  A. M. Rosenthal

  Making Love, Want, Circus

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• Then, when the Fed's fire hoses started spraying an elephant soup of liquidity injections in every direction, and its balance sheet grew by $1.3 trillion in just thirteen weeks compared to $850 billion during its first ninety-four years, I became convinced that the Fed was flying by the seat of its pants, making it up as it went along. It was evident that its aim was to stop the hissy fit on Wall Streetm and that the thread of a Great Depression 2.0 was just a cover story for a panicked spree of money printing that exceeded any other episode in recorded human history.

  David Stockman

  Wall, Years, Fire

  "The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America". Book by David Stockman, 2013.

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• A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget.

  Mary McCarthy

  Novelists, Forget

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• Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.

  Michael Caine

  Growing Up, Book, Library

  "This much I know". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2009.

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• I'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business. Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep elephants in chains 90 percent of the time. Elephants need freedom of movement. In circuses, they live in cramped quarters, which is not the life intended for them by nature. Some are beaten daily, forced to do ridiculous tricks and robbed of every shred of dignity.

  Bob Barker

  Animal, Circus, Apes

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• When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Rooms, Invisible, Trunks

  Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.135, Serpent's Tail

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• They can't expect anyone to actually pay for a shirt that says, 'I (picture of an elephant) the San Diego Zoo.' What does that even mean?

  Adam Rex

  Zoos, Mean, Doe

  Adam Rex (2010). “Fat Vampire: A Never-Coming-of-Age Story”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• In shape they were like horrible toads, and moved in a succession of springs, but in size they were of an incredible bulk, larger than the largest elephant. We had never before seen them save at night, and indeed they are nocturnal animals save when disturbed in their lairs, as these had been. We now stood amazed at the sight, for their blotched and warty skins were of a curious fish-like iridescence, and the sunlight struck them with an ever-varying rainbow bloom as they moved.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Spring, Animal, Night

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Dover Reader”, p.436, Courier Dover Publications

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• Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and deer.

  Paul Shepard

  Horse, Distance, Men

  Paul Shepard (2011). “The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game”, p.114, University of Georgia Press

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• I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, mid-life for an elephant, and ancient for a quarter-miler, whose son now says, "Dad, I just can't run the quarter with you anymore, unless I bring something to read."

  Bill Cosby

  Running, Dad, Son

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Time Flies”

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