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• [On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.

  Mark Twain

  Jugs, Dutch, Language

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• Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

  Samuel Johnson

  Truth, Yield, People

  1763 Of sceptics. Remark, 21 Jul. Quoted in James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.1.

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• Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother's milk singing to your bloodstream.

  Dorothy Allison

  Mother, Dream, Food

  Dorothy Allison (2005). “Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel”, p.70, Penguin

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• The very substance which last week was grazing in the field, waving in the milk pail, or growing in the garden, is now become part of the man.

  Isaac Watts

  Men, Garden, Growing

  Isaac Watts, Philip Doddridge, David Jennings (1800). “The Improvement of the Mind; Or, A Supplement to The Art of Logic. In Two Parts ... Also ... Posthumous Works, Published from His Manuscript, by D. Jennings ... and P. Doddridge”, p.37

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• All women are troublemakers who take the money their husbands need desperately for a new and better speaker, and selfishly squander it on things like shoes for the children, homogenized milk, or perhaps A SECOND DRESS!

  Stan Freberg

  Children, Husband, Shoes

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• So, basically, my view is I don't want to support the exploitation of animals, and within reason, I will do what I can to avoid it, but it's not like it's a religion for me. It's not like I consider I'm polluted if somehow some bit of milk or cheese or something passes my lips.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Views, Support

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• When I saw 'Hercules,' my mind just exploded because I was extremely thin; I was insecure. I literally ran out of the theatre and started lifting things, anything I could think of - milk crates. I'm still lifting things. It changed my life.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Insecure, Thinking, Mind

  Interview with Brian D. Johnson, www.macleans.ca. March 6, 2012.

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• Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain - which is to say, all of it. Every last bit of it, good and bad - old churches, country lanes, people saying 'Mustn't grumble,' and 'I'm terribly sorry but,' people apologizing to ME when I conk them with a careless elbow, milk in bottles, beans on toast, haymaking in June, seaside piers, Ordnance Survey maps, tea and crumpets, summer showers and foggy winter evenings - every bit of it.

  Bill Bryson

  Summer, Country, Sorry

  "Notes from a Small Island". Book by Bill Bryson, 1995.

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• Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of milk into Abernethy biscuits, and spermatozoa and ovaries into fishy little plants growing babyward if we take no care to stop them.

  Alasdair Gray

  Dog, Plants Growing, Eggs

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• There is no morally coherent difference between fur and other animal clothing, such as leather, wool, etc., just as there is no morally coherent distinction between meat and milk or eggs.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Eggs, Differences

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• We sucked in atheism with our canned milk.

  Joy Davidman

  Atheism

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• Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Fire, Doe

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• Invoke the Mercy of God and as milk returns not to the udder go not back to your wrongdoing." "Have compassion on yourself and on others and Infinite Compassion will be given to you." "In the name of Allah, All-Merciful, All Compassionate, bestow on me a Mercy that shall put me beyond the need of mercy from any other than Thee.

  Muhammad

  Compassion, Mercy Of God, Names

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• Babies cannot eat meat but some adults like milk.

  J. Vernon McGee

  Baby, Meat, Adults

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• If a man be new-born, he will desire the sincere milk of the word.

  Thomas Boston

  Men, Desire, Sincere

  Thomas Boston (1830). “Human Nature in Its Fourfold State: Of Primitive Integrity, Entire Depravation, Begun Recovery, and Consummate Happiness Or Misery, in the Parents of Mankind in Paradise, the Unregenerate, the Regenerate, All Mankind in the Future State, in Several Practical Discourses”, p.170

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• To meditate for world peace, to pray for a better world, and to work for social justice and environmental protection while continuing to purchase the flesh, milk, and eggs of horribly abused animals exposes a disconnect that is so fundamental that it renders our efforts absurd, hypocritical, and doomed to certain failure.

  Will Tuttle

  Prayer, Failure, Hypocrite

  Will Tuttle (2007). “The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony”, p.197, Lantern Books

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• It's no wonder Michelle Obama is telling everybody you better breast-feed your baby-yeah, you better-because the price of milk is so high right now!

  Sarah

  Baby, Wonder, Yeah

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• There is no substitute for milk. Sorry.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Sorry, Substitutes

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• Mother's milk, time-tested for millions of years, is the best nutrient for babies because it is nature's perfect food.

  Robert S. Mendelsohn

  Mother, Baby, Years

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• Some people like milk, but I would never drink anything you have to stroke out of an animal.

  Jonas Eriksson

  Animal, People, Drink

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• What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes neither learned nor a pure devotee of the Lord?

  Chanakya

  Son, Giving, Cows

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• Hotel tea is when you have to mix together a plastic envelope containing too much sugar, a small plastic pot of something which is not milk but has curdled anyway, and a thin brown packet seemingly containing the ashes of a cremated mole.

  Frank Muir

  Tea, Together, Sugar

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• You take [mammary] cells, you put them in a dish, and within three days ... they don't make milk. They completely forget.

  Mina Bissell

  Motivation, Inspiration, Cells

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• Law may prescribe that the male nipples be made equal to the female ones, but they still will not give milk.

  Allan Bloom

  Law, Giving, Males

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not good. Some would say milk's not good.

  Bob Dole

  Drinking, Kids, Smoking

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