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• Did you bring me a rat?" "He has no time for rats, George." "No time for rats? That's just sad.

  Rick Riordan

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• I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful of water thrown upon a rat already drowned would contribute to his death; and that the present plentiful harvest, although it should be followed by a dozen ensuing, would no more restore us, than it would the rat aforesaid to put him near the fire, which might indeed warm his fur-coat, but never bring him back to life.

  Jonathan Swift

  War, Fire, Water

  Jonathan Swift (1841). “The works of Jonathan Swift, containing papers not hitherto publ. With memoir of the author by T. Roscoe”, p.98

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• I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but within the discipline of probability, they fall apart, with the disconsolate face of a gym rat in front of a gangster hit man.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Fall, Men, Gym Rats

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.245, Random House

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• Mickey Cohen: New York, its like being a rat in a maze, everyone living on top of each other, but out here, I can breathe. I love Los Angeles.

  Mickey Cohen

  New York, Mazes, Breathe

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• Anything that can be done to a rat can be done to a human being. And we can do most anything to rats. This is a hard thing to think about, but it's the truth. It won't go away because we cover our eyes. THAT is cyberpunk.

  Bruce Sterling

  Eye, Thinking, Going Away

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• Tim Kaine is your friend's dad who catches you smoking weed at a sleepover and doesn't rat you out but talks to you about brain development.

  Tim Kaine

  Weed, Dad, Smoking

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Traditionally, psychology has been the study of two populations: university freshmen and white rats.

  Paul Bloom

  Two, White, Psychology

  "The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century (Toward a Theory of Moral Development)". Anthology edited by John Brockman, May 14, 2002.

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• The eye is the window of the soul, the mouth the door. The intellect, the will, are seen in the eye; the emotions, sensibilities, and affections, in the mouth. The animals look for man's intentions right into his eyes. Even a rat, when you hunt him and bring him to bay, looks you in the eye.

  Hiram Powers

  Eye, Animal, Men

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• I distrust the perpetually busy; always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their fourscore and ten in righteousness and pain. They are the soul-eaters.

  Mark Slouka

  Pain, Circles, Soul

  "Quitting the Paint Factory". Harper’s Magazine, November 2004.

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• The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

  Margaret Halsey

  Race, Rodents, Definitions

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by their faith in leaders seeking to conduct them into a prosperity where they believe these to be unknown.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Believe, Leader, Teeth

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.96, Courier Corporation

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• Foxes are rats in expensive coats. What are foxes associated with? Evil, wily, conniving, duplicitous, Fox News - worst news service on the planet and the evilest.

  Rich Hall

  America, Evil, News

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• Speaking of competition in the fast-food industry. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me.

  Ray Kroc

  Dog, Competition, Cooking

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• It is better to own 10% of an elephant than 100% of a rat.

  Arthur Mutambara

  Elephants

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• I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit.

  Ida B. Wells

  Dog, Fighting, Black History

  Ida B. Wells (2013). “Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”, p.62, University of Chicago Press

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• It is the 'zoomorphic' or 'rattomorphic' fallacy - the expressed or implicit contention that there is no essential difference between rat and man - which makes American psychology so profoundly disturbing.

  Ludwig von Bertalanffy

  Men, Differences, Psychology

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• It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat of the sun, the passage of swallows, the nearness of rats, the sameness of sheep, the love of spiders, the smell of manure, and the glory of everything.

  E. B. White

  Love, Happiness, Sheep

  Charlotte'sWeb ch. 22 (1952)

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• Christmas Eve Saint Francis and Saint Benedight Blesse this house from wicked wight; From the night-mare and the goblin, That is hight good fellow Robin: Keep it from all evil spirits, Fairies, weezels, rats, and ferrets: From curfew time To the next prime.

  Thomas Cartwright

  Time, Night, Evil

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• It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout - not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you don't even know till now.

  Jean Anouilh

  Voice, Tragedy, Complaining

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• Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards, and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.

  Garrison Keillor

  Humor, Laughing, Doe

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “We Are Still Married: Stories and Letters”, p.14, Penguin

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• You men of the einsatzgruppen are called upon to fulfill a repulsive duty. But you are soldiers who have to carry out every order unconditionally. You have a responsibility before God and Hitler for everything that is happening. I myself hate this bloody business and I have been moved to the depths of my soul. But I am obeying the highest law by doing my duty. Man must defend himself against bedbugs and rats, against vermin.

  Heinrich Himmler

  Hate, Responsibility, Men

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• Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything the Third Reich was capable of, indeed dwarfs it, in that ours is an enterprise without end, self-regenerating, bringing rabbits, rats, poultry, livestock ceaselessly into the world for the purpose of killing them.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Self, Holocaust, Rabbits

  J. M. Coetzee (2016). “The Lives of Animals: The Lives of Animals [Princeton Classics]”, p.21, Princeton University Press

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• You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away. A rat would probably be killed, though it can fall safely from the eleventh story of a building, a man is broken, a horse splashes.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Horse, Fall, Men

  "On Being the Right Size" by J. B. S. Haldane, 1926.

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• To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, Gym Rats, Way

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• Humans are now the most numerous mammal on the planet. There are more humans than rats or mice. Humans have a huge ecological footprint, magnified by their technology.

  David Suzuki

  Technology, Environmental, Mammals

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