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"Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire." »Robert Frost
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"I liked New York when it was an up-and-down city for me, low streets and high buildings. But then, for me, it grew horizontal---monotonous." »Jasper Johns (lithographer), Newsweek, Oct. 24, 1977 - page 42.
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"We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of thingsbut there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper." »James Carroll
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"We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things…[but] there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper." »James Carroll, O Magazine, October 2002
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"Let every fox take care of his own tail." »Italian Proverb
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"The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread." »Portuguese Proverb
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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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"In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag." »W.H. Auden
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"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way." »Mark Twain
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"If I could kick the person in the tail that causes me the most problems I could not sit down for a week." »Will Rogers
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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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"The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place." »John George Diefenbaker
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"A traveler must have the back of an ass to bear all,
a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all,
the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him,
the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing." »Thomas Nashe
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"America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair." »Arnold Toynbee
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"When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth paw the ground and swish my tail --- none of which is easy." »Princess Anne
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"He is a teenager, after all-a strange agent with holes in his jeans, studs in his ear, a tail down his neck, a cap on his head (backward)." »Ellen Karsh
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"America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair." »Arnold J. Toynbee
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"A bad man, though raised to honour, always returns to his natural course, as a dog?s tail, though warmed by the fire and rubbed with oil, retains its form.*" »The Hitopadesa
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"If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail." »Fran Lebowitz
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"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this And radio operates exactly the same way you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat." »Albert Einstein
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"'Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat." »Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio
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"The wirless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat." »Albert Einstein
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"To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another." »Katherine Patterson, Jacob Have I Loved
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"Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yieldAgainst stupidity the very godsThemselves contend in vain. Exalted reason,Resplendent daughter of the head divine,Wise foundress of the system of the world,Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou,Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed,Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd,Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss." »Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller
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