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• Dan watched in awe. "I didn't know you talk Turkey." "I speak Turkish.

  Peter Lerangis

  Speak, Turkish, Awe

  Peter Lerangis (2012). “The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Book 3: The Dead of Night”, p.65, Scholastic Inc.

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• The poet dreams of the classroom I dreamed I stood up in class And I said aloud: Teacher, Why is algebra important? Sit down, he said. Then I dreamed I stood up And I said: Teacher, I’m weary of the turkeys That we have to draw every fall. May I draw a fox instead? Sit down, he said. Then I dreamed I stood up once more and said: Teacher, My heart is falling asleep And it wants to wake up. It needs to be outside. Sit down, he said.

  Mary Oliver

  Dream, Teacher, Fall

  Mary Oliver (2010). “Swan: Poems and Prose Poems”, p.27, Beacon Press

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• Oh yeah? What did you have last night?" "Turkey sandwich on wheat. With a pickle." "And the night before?" "Turkey sandwich on wheat. No pickle." She giggled. "What was the last hot meal you cooked?" He pretended to rack his brains. "Uh...beans and franks. On Monday.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Monday, Night, Brain

  Nicholas Sparks (2010). “The Lucky One”, p.96, Hachette UK

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• Everyone stopped to blink at that for a second. I mean, come on. Impaled by a guided frozen turkey missile. Even by the standards of the quasi-immortal creatures of the night, that ain't something you see twice. "For my next trick," I panted into the startled silence, "anvils.

  Jim Butcher

  Mean, Night, Silence

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.113, Penguin

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• Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Funny, Christmas, Food

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• You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Race, Apples

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• During the warm season (August 8 and 9), Maine is a true vacation paradise, offering visitors a chance to jump into crystal-clear mountain lakes and see if they can get back out again before their bodily tissue is frozen as solid as a supermarket turkey.

  Dave Barry

  Vacation, Lakes, Offering

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.80, Ballantine Books

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• The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Mistake, Believe, Army

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• I never really liked meat. I was a child that had to be forced to eat my meat. Whatever you ate before that you loved like turkey slices they've got a substitute now that's not hard to find.

  Masta Killa

  Children, Meat, Substitutes

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• From 1973 to 1982 I ate the exact same lunch everyday . Turkey chili in a bowl made out of bread . Bread bowl George. First you eat the chili then you eat the bowl . There's nothing more satisfying than looking down after lunch and seeing nothing but a table.

  George Steinbrenner

  Lunch, Everyday, Tables

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• When Turkey buys Iranian oil, we pay for it in Turkish lira... However, it is not possible for Iran to take that money as dollars into its own country due to international restrictions, the U.S.A.s sanctions. Therefore, when Iran cannot take this money back as currency, they withdraw Turkish lira and buy gold from our market.

  Ali Babacan

  Country, Iran, Oil

  "Iran importing gold to evade economic sanctions, Turkish official says" by Ivan Watson and Gul Tuysuz, www.cnn.com. November 29, 2012.

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• I love to cook. I make an award-winning turkey chili.

  Joely Fisher

  Winning, Awards, Cooks

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

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• Do you realize that if the pilgrims have been chasing bobcats instead of turkeys.. we'd all be eating pussy on Thanksgiving?!

  Redd Foxx

  Pussy, Bobcats, Realizing

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• The past was a consumable, subject to the national preference for familiar products. And history, in America, is a dish best served plain. The first course could include a dollop of Italian in 1492, but not Spanish spice or French sauce or too much Indian corn. Nothing too filling or fancy ahead of the turkey and pumpkin pie, just the way Grandma used to cook it.

  Tony Horwitz

  Grandma, Italian, Past

  Tony Horwitz (2008). “A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World”, Henry Holt and Company

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• Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.

  Edward Abbey

  Envy, Littles, Height

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.28, RosettaBooks

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• The commerce of India does not grow, nor does that of Portugal, or of Turkey; that but that of the protected countries does increase, as has been shown in the case of Spain, and can now be shown in that of Germany.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Country, India, Spain

  Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.392

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• Matt Le Tissier had firm views about Austria's reluctance to allow Turkey full membership of the EU last Saturday, I seem to recall.

  Jeff Stelling

  Views, Membership, Lasts

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• The arrogance of the young is a direct result of not having known enough consequences. The turkey that every day greedily approaches the farmer who tosses him grain is not wrong. It is just that no one ever told him about Thanksgiving.

  Harry Golden

  Arrogance, Toss, Enough

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• What is a turducken? An exclusive culinary creation available by special order from some little Cajun town down south. Entirely deboned, a turducken consists of a turkey, stuffed with duck, stuffed with a chicken, like an edible Russian nesting doll. Some were stuffed with alligator, crap, shrimp; my favorite was the traditional cornbread variety.

  S.A. Bodeen

  Order, Ducks, Special

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• Thanksgiving is coming. I wonder what the holiday will be like at Dog the Bounty Hunter’s house—obviously, they’ll have a turkey with all-white meat.

  Chelsea Handler

  Dog, Holiday, White

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• And so, Thanksgiving. Its the most amazing holiday. Just think about it — it's a miracle that once a year so many millions of Americans sit down to exactly the same meal as one another, exactly the same meal they grew up eating, and exactly the same meal they ate a year earlier. The turkey. The sweet potatoes. The stuffing. The pumpkin pie. Is there anything else we all can agree so vehemently about? I don't think so.

  Nora Ephron

  Sweet, Holiday, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Nov 22, 2012

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• In its sacredness, families get together to (unintentionally?) celebrate one genocide (against Native Americans) by committing another (against turkeys).

  Daniel Brook

  Native American, Together, Vegetarian

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• What if people really did that - sent their love through the mail to get rid of it? What would it be that they sent? A box of chocolates with centers like the yolks of turkey eggs. A mud doll with hollow eye sockets. A heap of roses slightly more fragrant than rotten. A package wrapped in bloody newspaper that nobody would want to open.

  Alice Munro

  Eye, Eggs, People

  Alice Munro (1999). “The love of a good woman: stories”, Penguin, 1999

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• It is all well and good for children and acid freaks to believe in Santa Claus - but it is still a profoundly morbid day for us working professionals. It is unsettling to know that one out of every twenty people you meet on Xmas will be dead this time next year.... Some people can accept this, and some can't. That is why God made whiskey, and also why Wild Turkey comes in $300 shaped canisters during most of the Christmas season...

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Xmas, Children, Believe

  "Fear and Loathing in Elko" by Hunter S. Thompson, www.rollingstone.com. January 23, 1992.

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• In Europe, when tobacco was first introduced, it was immediately banned. In Turkey, if you got caught with tobacco, you had your nose slit. China and Russia imposed the death penalty for possession of tobacco.

  Andrew Weil

  Russia, Europe, Firsts

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