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• Burns' Hog-Weighing Method: (1) Get a perfectly symmetrical plank and balance it across a sawhorse. (2) Put the hog on one end of the plank. (3) Pile rocks on the other end until the plank is again perfectly balanced. (4) Carefully guess the weight of the rocks.

  Robert Burns

  Rocks, Balance, Weight

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• In the Ngong Forest I have also seen, on a narrow path through thick growth, in the middle of a very hot day, the Giant Forest Hog, a rare person to meet.

  Isak Dinesen

  Rare Person, Growth, Hot

  Isak Dinesen (1987). “Out of Africa”, Crown Pub

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• Dogs and cats get put to sleep; hogs and cows get slaughtered.

  George Carlin

  Dog, Sleep, Cat

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• When we know as much about people as hog specialists know about hogs, we'll be better off.

  Lewis Blaine Hershey

  People, Specialists, Knows

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• I knew he would never leave me, never let me down-because the man had never abandoned anything in his long life. If I hadn’t taken the gold rope of our bond, I knew Adam would have sat on me and hog-tied me with it. I liked that. A lot.

  Patricia Briggs

  Taken, Men, Long

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• My opinion was that if hogs are biting you so often that you have to stop and make up a specific word for it, maybe lack of vocabulary is not your most pressing problem.

  Charles Frazier

  Vocabulary, Biting, Opinion

  Charles Frazier (2006). “Thirteen Moons: A Novel”, p.81, Random House

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• To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.

  George Herbert

  Wine, Fishing, Pot

  George Herbert (1959). “The works of George Herbert”

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• If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback.

  Otis Redding

  Horse, Singing, Acres

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• A traveller must have the back of an ass to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing.

  Thomas Nashe

  Dog, Travel, Tails

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• Yeah, I'm going to need a leather jacket for when I'm on my hog and need to go into a controlled slide.

  George Michael

  Leather Jackets, Needs, Slides

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• The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.

  Edward Abbey

  Night, Roots, Acorns

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• Nice knees, bud, but the hairy legs could use a Bush Hog. (Kyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Nice, Bud, Use

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Embrace”, p.62, Macmillan

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• A hero does for others. He would do anything for people he loves, because he knows it would make their lives better. I am not that kind of person, but I want you to be. You could give something to her, to me, to those children in the quarter. You could give something I never could ... The white people out there are saying you don't have it-that you're a hog, not a man. But I know they are wrong.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Children, Hero, Love Is

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• Just watch. Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. When you try to take it too far, people turn the other way. I'm just telling you, when you've got a good thing and you get greedy, it always, always, always, always, always turns on you. That's rule No. 1 of business.

  Mark Cuban

  Pigs, People, Trying

  "Mark Cuban predicted the NFL's ratings free fall years ago - and his theory might be coming true" by Nathan McAlone, www.businessinsider.com. November 3, 2016.

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• What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the public dance the jitterbug. Night and day without let the radio drowns us in a hog-wash of the most nauseating, sentimental ditties. From the churches comes the melancholy dirge of the dead Christ, a music which is no more sacred than a rotten turnip.

  Henry Miller

  Night, Symphony, Years

  Henry Miller (1945). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, [New York] : New directions

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• I could scream down 90 mountains to less than dust if only one living human had eyes in the head and heart in the body, but there is no chance, my god, no chance. rat with rat dog with dog hog with hog, play the piano drunk listen to the drunk piano, realize the myth of mercy stand still as even a child's voice snarls and we have not been fooled, it was only that we wanted to believe.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dog, Children, Believe

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• They use everything about the hog except the squeal.

  Upton Sinclair

  Use, Squealing, Jungle

  Upton Sinclair (2016). “The Jungle”, p.35, Xist Publishing

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• Runny's Nicpic One day Runny Babbit Met little Franny Fog. He said, "Let's have a nicpic Down by the lollow hog." He brought some cutter bookies, Some teanuts and some pea. And what did Franny Fog bring? Her whole fog framily.

  Shel Silverstein

  Fog, One Day, Littles

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• A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Motivational, Atheist

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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• Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.

  James Earl Jones

  War, Food, Anxiety

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

  Joel Chandler Harris

  Luck, Watches, Want

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• I wouldn't say I'm a ball hog. I'm a shooter.

  Kobe Bryant

  Badass, Balls, Shooter

  "Kobe Bryant feeling fine in Philly" by Dave McMenamin, www.espn.com. December 17, 2012.

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• My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, “All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: ‘On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to Sister.’” She raised me up to be a Southern writer, but it wasn’t easy.

  Pat Conroy

  Mother, Night, Daddy

  Pat Conroy (2016). “A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life”, p.144, Nan A. Talese

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• Where do you get the right to decide our lives? I'll tell you where. From that little hog's gut that hangs between your legs. Well, let me tell you something... you will need more than that. I don't know where you will get it or who will give it to you, but mark my words, you will need more than that.... You are a sad, pitiful, stupid, selfish, hateful man. I hope your little hog's gut stands you in good stead, and you take good care of it, because you don't have anything else.

  Toni Morrison

  Selfish, Stupid, Men

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• I hereby certify that the bearer of this note, Nikolai Ivanovich, spent the night in question at Satan's ball, having been lured there in a transportational capacity... Hella, put in parentheses! And write 'hog.' Signed- Behemoth.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Writing, Night, Balls

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