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• If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Trying, Normal, Arguing

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.210, Random House

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• It's Simon. He's missing." "Ah," said Magnus, delicately, "missing what, exactly?" "Missing," Jace repeated, "as in gone, absent, notable for his lack of presence, disappeared." "Maybe he's gone and hidden under something," Magnus suggested. "It can't be easy getting used to being a rat, especially for someone so dim-witted in the first place." "Simon's not dim-witted," Clary protested angrily. "It's true," Jace agreed. "He just looks dim-witted. Really his intelligence is quite average.

  Cassandra Clare

  Average, Missing, Looks

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• A shrieking rise of power rushed into my pathways, rocking me against the wall. Ido's body slammed into mine. He was not going to let go. Not now. The Rat Dragon howled, his heavy blue force driven back by the onslaught of sinuous gold. Raw,rejoicing energy flooded my seven centers of power; opening,pushing, seeking. And behind it all, a presence exulting in the joy of release and reunion. I looked up and finally my mind-sight was clear. I could see the Mirror Dragon. My Dragon.

  Alison Goodman

  Letting Go, Wall, Mirrors

  Alison Goodman (2010). “Eon”, p.310, Penguin

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• I took notes on the people around me, in my town, in my family, in my memory. I took notes on my own state of mind, my grandiosity, the low self-esteem. I wrote down the funny stuff I overheard. I learned to be like a ship's rat, veined ears trembling, and I learned to scribble it all down.

  Anne Lamott

  Memories, Self Esteem, People

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.23, Anchor

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• If I am ever in the position where I wish to seduce someone I will simply assure her it’s better than rats.

  Anne Stuart

  Wish, Seducing, Position

  Anne Stuart (2015). “Anne Stuart The House of Rohan Box Set: The Wicked House of Rohan\Ruthless\Reckless\Breathless\Shameless”, p.93, MIRA

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• There is something about Christmas that requires a rug rat. Little kids make Christmas fun. I wonder if could rent one for the holidays.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Fun, Holiday, Kids

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.70, Macmillan

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• There is something about Christmas that requires a rug rat. Little kids make Christmas fun. I wonder if could rent one for the holidays. When I was tiny we would by a real tree and stay up late drinking hot chocolate and finding just the right place for the special decorations. It seems like my parents gave up the magic when I figured out the Santa lie. Maybe I shouldn't have told them I knew where the presents really came from. It broke their hearts.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Christmas, Fun, Real

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• We could get kinky and see how bats and rats make love, he suggested in a whisper, warm breath against her neck. You are a sick man, Jacques. Very, very sick.

  Christine Feehan

  Men, Sick, Making Love

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• I must admit, Peter, I have difficulty in understanding why an innocent man would want to spend twelve years as a rat.

  J. K. Rowling

  Men, Innocent Man, Years

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• Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house fly and the moth, must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys. Virtues and graces and laziness and zest. Our Father who art in nature.

  John Steinbeck

  Art, Father, Boys

  John Steinbeck (2001). “Novels, 1942-1952”

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• Most rats read. Our frustration is, we cannot hold a pen to write.

  Suzanne Collins

  Writing, Frustration, Gregor The Overlander

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.133, Scholastic Inc.

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• The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Military, War, Race

  "A Conversation With Daniel Berrigan". Interview with Alan Fox, www.rattle.com. January 30, 1999.

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• Oddly enough, MS has made my life so much better than it was before. I now appreciate what I have and I am not running around like a rat in a maze.

  Teri Garr

  Running, Appreciate, Mazes

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• One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.

  Val Kilmer

  Criminals, Citizens, Prison

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• How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat?

  Suge Knight

  Ghetto

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• Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.

  Johann Lamont

  School, Race, Exam

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• We're throwing money down a rat hole drain of public education! We lead the world in public education spending. We lead the world in getting the least for it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  World, Holes, Drains

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• I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn't changed much in forty-five years. Our house was on 66th and Blackstone, but the city tore it down when the rats took over.

  Bernie Mac

  Years, Cities, House

  Bernie Mac (2009). “Maybe You Never Cry Again”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.

  John Major

  Running, Block, Community

  "Major goes back to the old values" by Patrick Wintour and Stephen Bates, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 1993.

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• Our environments shape the way we see ourselves. If you have been condemned to live in an area that is pretty evidently a rat-run, then sooner or later you're gonna come to the conclusion that you're a rat.

  Alan Moore

  Running, Shapes, Way

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• Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Love, Hero, Reality

  1969 'Those Daring Young Men In Their Flying Machines Ain't What They Used To Be!', in Pageant, Sep.

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• If Under fell, if Over leaped, If death was life and Death life reaped, Something rises from the gloom, To make the Underland a tomb Hear it scratching down below, Rat of long forgotten snow, Evil cloaked in coat of White, Will the Warrior drain your light? What could turn the Warrior week? What do burning Gnawers seek? Just a barely speaking pup That holds the Land of Under up Die the baby, die his heart Die his most essential part Die the peace that rules the hour, Gnawers have their key to power

  Suzanne Collins

  Baby, Heart, Warrior

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• For Rat Kiley, I think, facts were formed by sensation, not the other way around, and when you listened to one of his stories, you'd find yourself performing rapid calculations in your head, subtracting superlatives, figuring the square root of an absolute and then multiplying by maybe.

  Tim O'Brien

  Thinking, Squares, Roots

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I dare say it is rather hard to be a rat,” she mused. “Nobody likes you. People jump and run away and scream out: ‘Oh, a horrid rat!’ I shouldn’t like people to scream and jump and say: ‘Oh, a horrid Sara!’ the moment they saw me, and set traps for me, and pretend they were dinner. It’s so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said: ‘Wouldn’t you rather be a sparrow?

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Running, People, Different

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.75, Xist Publishing

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• I haven't had this much fun since the rats ate my baby sister

  Robert Bloch

  Baby, Fun, Fists

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