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• I would have beaten Bloomberg like a rented mule.

  Anthony Weiner

  Beaten

  "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart, February 04, 2010.

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• I have fallen in love with American names,
  The sharp names that never get fat,
  The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims,
  The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat,
  Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Love, War, Names

  'American Names' (1927)

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• ...solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the evening, is scarcely robbed of its solitude, though once seen. *** Here sitting on the world, she thought, for she could not shake herself free from the sense that everything this morning was happening for the first time, perhaps for the last time, as a traveller, even though he is half asleep, knows, looking out of the train window, that he must look now, for he will never see that town, or that mule-cart, or that woman at work in the fields, again.

  Virginia Woolf

  Morning, Solitude, Looks

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• I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth shut.

  Mika

  Stubborn, Mouths, Opinion

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To know the piano is to know the universe. To master the piano is to master the universe. The spectrum of piano sound acts as a prism through which all musical and non-musical sounds may be filtered. The grunts of sheep, the braying of mules, the popping of champagne corks, the sighs of unrequited love, not to mention the full lexicon of sounds available to all other instruments-including whistles, scrapes, bleatings, caresses, thuds, hoots, plus sweet and sour pluckings-fall within the sovereignty of this most bare and dissembling chameleon.

  Russell Sherman

  Sweet, Fall, Unrequited Love

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• When people are too comfortable, it is not possible to restrain them within the bounds of their duty? They may be compared to mules who, being accustomed to burdens, are spoilt by rest rather than labour.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  People, May, Burden

  1688 Testament Politique.

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• I didn't grow up on the porch of a cabin looking out over the 90 acres that the mule was plowing with Paw-Paw playing the banjo. But I was always interested in folk music.

  Ketch Secor

  Growing Up, Cabins, Plowing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Civilization, or "the system" or "society" or whatever you want to call it, is best served not by mules but by free men.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Men, Civilization, Want

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• We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence

  Voltaire

  Intelligent, Ideas, Differences

  Voltaire (2015). “Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary”, p.51, Voltaire

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• You can't run a mule in the Kentucky Derby.

  Jim Leyland

  Running, Kentucky, Derby

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• If you really want your films to say something that you hope is unique, then patience and stamina, thick skin and a kind of stupidity, a mule-like stupidity, is what you really need.

  Terry Gilliam

  Unique, Stupidity, Skins

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• A white man killed the mules and our cows that knocked us right back down. And things got so tough then I began to wish I was white.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Men, White, Wish

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• I've been trying to get Mr. Finchem to lengthen 5 and 7 and 14 and 18 - and he's being a mule.

  Pete Dye

  Trying

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• I like musicianship, and it's quite lacking in most modern popular music. You're always safe with old Chicago, the Allman Brothers, Gov't Mule, or Tower of Power.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Brother, Chicago, Towers

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• You’re going to have to learn to ride a horse on your own, Phaedra', he said. 'It will make the journey faster.' 'The mule and I have an agreement.' 'The mule and you have similar traits.

  Melina Marchetta

  Horse, Journey, Agreement

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• Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.

  John Moody

  Horse, Car, Sailing

  John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• Self carries grief as a pack mule carries the side bags, being careful between the trees to leave extra room.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Grief, Self, Tree

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• Now, I'm for interracial marriage. I'm for same-sex marriage. I'm the one that introduced the bill to have same-sex marriage. I don't care who marry who. If a man meet a little mule and he wanna get married to the little mule, as long as he and the little mule get along all right, that's fine with me. It doesn't bother me any kind of way.

  Alvin Holmes

  Sex, Men, Long

  "Alabama Dem Shocks Radio Audience With His Support for a Man Marrying a ‘Little Mule’" by Mike Opelka, www.theblaze.com. April 11, 2014.

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• I think of modern marriage as a car strangely fashioned out of an old abandoned horse carriage, built upon the framework of a mule cart. All the original engineering is still there, underneath it all.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Horse, Thinking, Engineering

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• I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row, then down another, and try not to look up too often to see how far you still have to go.

  Ron Rash

  Writing, Thinking, Long

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• To value the tradition of, and the discipline required for, the craft of fiction seems today pointless. The real Arcadia is a lonely, mountainous plateau, overbouldered and strewn with the skulls of sheep slain for vellum and old bitten pinions that tried to be quills. It's forty rough miles by mule from Athens, a city where there's a fair, a movie house, cotton candy.

  Alexander Theroux

  Lonely, Real, Cities

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• When you start trying to figure out what you're the best at, that's when you become delusional because you start to believe that. [you're the best] I'd rather continue to ride that mule than to ride the cocky horse. You see people spin out of control like that all the time. Those are the most tragic stories – the most gifted people who start to believe that it's really ALL THEM. It's not all you. It can't be all you. Just like you need air to fly a kite. It's not the KITE – it's the AIR.

  Pharrell Williams

  Horse, Believe, Cocky

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• In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, 'Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,' the first thing I said was, 'Lee, you can't make a race horse out of a mule. I don't want to do it.' He said, 'I didn't ask you to make it; you work for me.'

  Carroll Shelby

  Sports, Horse, Race

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• I'm just a mule with blinders on, I can't help myself.

  Wayne White

  Helping, Blinders, I Can

  Source: screenanarchy.com

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• My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three.

  Mark E. Smith

  Memories, Three, Muffins

  "This much I know". Interview with Luke Bainbridge, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2009.

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