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"Kindness and compassion toward all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people. Racism, economic deprival, dog fighting and cock fighting, bull fighting and rodeos are cut from the same fabric: violence. Only when we have become nonviolent toward all life will we have learned to live well ourselves." »Cesar Chavez, letter
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"Once when I was in Hawaii, on the island of Kauai, I met a mysterious old stranger. He said he was about to die and wanted to tell someone about the treasure. I said, 'Okay, as long as it's not a long story. Some of us have a plane to catch, you know.' He stared telling his story, about the treasure and his life and all, and I thought 'This story isn't too long.' But then, he kept going, and I started thinking, 'Uh-oh, this story is getting long.' But then the story was over, and I said to myself 'You know, that story wasn't too long after all.' I forget what the story was about, but there was a good movie on the plane. It was a little long, though." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision." »Penn Jillette
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"There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself." »Mark Twain
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"A book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for the soul." »Eric Pio
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"At first cock-crow the ghosts must go
Back to their quiet graves below." »Theodosia Garrison
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"All the best stories are but one story in reality--the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape." »A. C. Benson
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"Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail then you can let go when you want to." »Josh Billings
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"The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind." »Heinrich Heine
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"Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull." »H. L. Mencken
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"There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation." »W. C. Fields
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"Tommy You can take a good look at a T-bone by sticking your head up a bull's ass, but wouldn't you rather take the butcher's word for it" »Tommy Boy
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"Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports. . . all others are games." »Ernest Hemingway
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"There is no mystery, at least not the kind you want. In real life there are no fogbound moors or clues on matchbooks or fifth columnists waiting to be unmasked. it would be nice if here were, because then there would be solutions to things in life, but it doesn't always work that way. Everyone likes a good detective story. I went through my Hammett phase in college. I think the attraction is, in life our mysteries aren't exciting. You know They're just intractable and depressing and enervating. Like, why do we always hurt the ones we love. Where does the money go ...in a detective story, at least the universe makes sense. It was him. He did it. The natural order is disturbed, but the beauty of it is that it's restored again." »Rogers Turrentine
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"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." »Dennis Wholey
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"Wind is the heart of the wave, the spoon of the sea and the angry bull of the ships. Without wind, there is no ardour, no agitation!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The purpose of life is to pass the frontiers! Attack the frontiers to go beyond them with the determination of a bull attacking the red colour!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"We know that the world is not resting on the horn of a bull; we also know that it rests on the horn of lies!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Was all this bloodshed and deceit - from Columbus to Cortes, Pizarro the Puritans - a necessity for the human race to progress from savagery to civilization? Was Morison right in burying the story of genocide inside a more important story of human progress? Perhaps a persuasive argument can be made - as it was made by Stalin when he killed pesants for industrial progress in the Soviet Union, as it was made by Churchill explaining the bombings of Dresden and Hamburg, and Truman explaining Hiroshima. But how can the judgement be made if the benefits and losses cannot be balanced because the losses are either unmentioned or mentioned quickly?" »Howard Zinn
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"Ferris I do have a test today. that wasn't bull. It's on European socialism. I mean, really, what's the point I'm not European. I don't plan on being European. So who gives a crap if they're socialists They could be fasict anarcists. It still doesn't change the fact that i don't own a car." »Ferris Bueller's Day Off
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""It's your story, run with it"" »Tom Zegan
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"We are the hero of our own story." »Mary McCarthy
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"“Free yourself from the inauthenticity and disempowerment of your story."" »Steve Maraboli
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"If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it." »Horace Mann
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"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story." »John Barth
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"In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story." »Walter Cronkite
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"Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail." »Philip
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"Life is too short for a long story." »Mary Wortley Montagu
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"In the unlikely story that is America, there's never been anything false about hope." »Barack Obama
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