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• The question is: until reinforced, can we learn the ways of church mice.

  Al Swearengen

  Church, Way

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• Jiu Jitsu is a mousetrap. The trap does not chase the mouse. But when the mouse grabs the cheese, the trap plays its role.

  Helio Gracie

  Art, Play, Doe

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• Fury said to a mousethat he met in the houselet us both go to law; I will prosecute youlet there be no denial; come, we must have a trialfor really, this morning, I've nothing to dosuch a trial, dear sir, said the mouse to the curwithout jury or judge would be wasting our breathI'll be judge, I'll be jurysaid cunning old furyI'll try the whole cause and condemn youto death

  Lewis Carroll

  Morning, Law, Judging

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• And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.

  Walt Whitman

  Miracle, Leaves Of Grass, Enough

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.41, NYU Press

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• I say, if you believe what you read in the comic strips, then you believe that mice run around with little gold buttons on their red pants and drive cars.

  Mort Walker

  Running, Believe, Car

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• If you can modify a cell, it's only a short step to modifying a mouse, and if you can modify a mouse, it's only a step to modifying a higher animal, even man.

  Erwin Chargaff

  Science, Animal, Men

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• The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.

  Douglas J. Feith

  Cat, Government, Games

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• A stunning meditation on the power of escape, and on the cat-and-mouse contest the self plays to deflect its own guilt.

  Ethan Gilsdorf

  Cat, Self, Play

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• People don't like to feed live mice and rats to their snakes. Now we have a regular meat food that they will eat. Ninety percent of the snakes will eat this food and love it.

  Dick Van Patten

  Snakes, People, And Love

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• You're here, on your knees, praying as the seconds on your Mickey Mouse clock tick by, but in God's time, you're working with Him at the moment of creation, when there is no time.

  Amy Welborn

  Prayer, Knees, Praying

  Amy Welborn (2002). “Prove It! Prayer”, p.36, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• Breakthrough Advertising is not about building better mousetraps. It is, however, about building larger mice - and then building a terrifying fear of them in your customers.

  Eugene Schwartz

  Advertising, Building, Breakthrough

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• ...Humans were the only creatures in the world that ate their food cooked. You'd never find a Gorilla frying up some bananas for dinner or a lion charcoal-broiling a zebra steak. Cats don't often run to the oven with a mouse or bird they've captured, and a dog wouldn't naturally prepare its rabbit dinner in a stew.

  Dick Gregory

  Running, Dog, Zebras

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• We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it?

  David Brin

  Elephants, Long, Mammals

  Orbit Interview, www.sffworld.com. July 19, 2002.

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• The doctrines some now preach could not build a mouse-trap.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Church, Doctrine, Traps

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• Various philosophers and religious leaders tried to convince their disciples and followers that animals are nothing more than machines without a soul, without feelings. However, anyone who has ever lived with an animal-be it a dog, a bird, or even a mouse-knows that this theory is a brazen lie, invented to justify cruelty.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Religious, Dog, Lying

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• What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians?

  Albert Einstein

  Math, Battle, Frogs

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• I'm as poor as a church mouse, that's just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Funny, Money, Wife

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• It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing.

  e. e. cummings

  Spring, Fall, 4th Of July

  E. E. Cummings (1996). “Is 5”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

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• These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as: "I see where I can make an annual cut of $3.47 in my meat budget." But they have no slow, big ideas.

  Brenda Ueland

  Cutting, Thinking, Ideas

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• We felt that the public, and especially the children, like animals that are cute and little. I think we are rather indebted to Charlie Chaplin for the idea. We wanted something appealing, and we thought of a tiny bit of a mouse that would have something of the wistfulness of Chaplin - a little fellow trying to do the best he could.

  Walt Disney

  Cute, Children, Animal

  "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

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• The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse.

  Horace

  Mountain, Littles, Birth

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• The best plans of men and mice often go awry.

  Robert Burns

  Men, Plans

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• I hate mice. The mouse involves you in arm motions that slow you down. I didn't want it on the Macintosh, but Jobs insisted. In those days, what he said went, good idea or not.

  Jef Raskin

  Jobs, Hate, Ideas

  "Programmers At Work". Book by Susan M. Lammers, 1986.

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• There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness; we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dog

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• A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Cities, Paris, Mountain

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