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• There are many other kinds of milk available. Why don't we try drinking rats' milk and dogs' milk?

  Heather Mills

  Funny, Dog, Drinking

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• Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be.

  Raymond Chandler

  Fashion, Cat, Tree

  Raymond Chandler (1987). “Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler”, Delta

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• I wish they would remember that the charge to Peter was "Feed my sheep", not "Try experiments on my rats", or even "Teach my performing dogs new tricks".

  C. S. Lewis

  Dog, Sheep, Wish

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Party, Men, House

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.92, 谷月社

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• Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows rusty in the chimney corner. ... About the only sporting proposition that remains unimpaired by the relentless domestication of a once free-living human species is the war against those ferocious little fellow creatures, which lurk in dark corners and stalk us in the bodies of rats, mice and all kinds of domestic animals; which fly and crawl with the insects, and waylay us in our food and drink and even in our love

  Hans Zinsser

  War, Adventure, Science

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• In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

  Anne Lamott

  Drinking, Waiting, Forgiving

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.120, Anchor

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• It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat.

  Winston Churchill

  Betrayal, Betray

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• The Rat, meanwhile, was busy examining the label on one of the beer-bottles. "I perceive this to be Old Burton," he remarked approvingly. "Sensible Mole! The very thing! Now we shall be able to mull some ale. Get the things ready, Mole, while I draw the corks."

  Kenneth Grahame

  Beer, Moles, Labels

  Kenneth Grahame (2016). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.51, Xist Publishing

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• I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of complexity) lie in the field of verbal behavior.

  B. F. Skinner

  Lying, Men, Differences

  B. F. Skinner (1990). “The Behavior of Organisms: An Experimental Analysis”, p.466, B. F. Skinner Foundation

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• We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens' creme brulee. That's just a joke, for you in the media.

  Ann Coulter

  Media, Justice, Needs

  "Coulter Jokes About Poisoning Supreme Court Justice". www.foxnews.com. January 27, 2006.

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• I actually wanted to be a doctor. But doing all those horrid rat dissections made me faint. I studied science till the 12th standard and later took up commerce. I was planning to do chartered accountancy, but fate had something else in store for me.

  Bipasha Basu

  Fate, Doctors, Planning

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I just don't have the desire no more, I don't have the stomach to do it no more. I don't even kill insects in my house. I just don't kill anything no more. I used to kill pigeons, rip their heads off, 'You dirty rat pigeon!' I don't even have the heart to kill an animal no more. I just changed my whole life in general. That probably could have changed the way I fight.

  Mike Tyson

  Rip, Dirty, Heart

  "Tyson's love for the fight game turns to disgust". Interview with Dan Rafael, www.espn.com. June 11, 2005.

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• I was a French Quarter rat from the moment I could get on a bus by myself and go to the French Quarter. I played music most of my early life and it just seemed that to entertain people was a really good thing to do.

  John Larroquette

  French Quarter, People, Moments

  "Tavis Smiley Tonight", October 18, 2008.

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• I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.

  Bob Geldof

  Fun, Nice, Thinking

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• One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.

  Ida B. Wells

  Dog, Fighting, Justice

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

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• If you confine yourself to this Skinnerian technique, you study nothing but the learning apparatus and you leave out everything that is different in octopi, crustaceans, insects and vertebrates. In other words, you leave out everything that makes a pigeon a pigeon, a rat a rat, a man a man, and, above all, a healthy man healthy and a sick man sick.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Learning, Health, Science

  Richard Isadore Evans, Konrad Lorenz (1975). “Konrad Lorenz: The Man and His Ideas”, Harcourt

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• You're a mouse studying to be a rat.

  Wilson Mizner

  Sarcastic, Study, Mice

  Quoted in Alva Johnston, The Legendary Mizners (1953)

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• The rats are underneath the piles/ The Jew is underneath the lot.

  T. S. Eliot

  Jew

  T.S. Eliot (2010). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.45, Broadview Press

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• Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat-glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning?

  Frank N. Ikard

  Morning, Children, Animal

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• Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men like poisoned rats, which, when they have tasted of their bane, cannot rest till they drink, and then can much less rest till they die

  Joseph Hall

  Ambition, Men, Enemy

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.26

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• Isn't it amazing that the Germans call their city halls 'rat houses'? That's what we should call our city halls!

  Drew Carey

  Cities, House, Political

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• The rat gave birth. Six little ones...cute baby rats... None of them are like Hitler.

  Yoshihiro Tatsumi

  Cute, Baby, Littles

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• The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.

  David Foster

  Real, Sacrifice, Thinking

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• I never said, 'MMMmmm, you dirty rat!

  James Cagney

  Dirty, Said

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• England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Running, Insulting, Racist

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