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• The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.

  John Spencer

  Real, Cutting, Technology

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Furthermore, unlike Man's other great good friend the horse, the cat is no sweating serf of Man. The only labor she condescends to perform is to catch mice and rats, and that's fun.

  Vance Packard

  Horse, Fun, Cat

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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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• 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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• What about the rat race in the first place? Is it worthwhile? Or are you just buying into someone else's definition of success? Only you can decide that, and you'll have to decide it over and over and over. But if you think it's a rat race, before you drop out, take a deep breath. Maybe you picked the wrong job. Try again. And then try again.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Jobs, Thinking, Race

  "FACEBOOK COO SANDBERG: The Women Of My Generation Blew It, So Equality Is Up To You, Graduates" by Sheryl Sandberg, www.businessinsider.com. May 18, 2011.

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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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• Back in the Rat Pack days, we'd take Frank's plane and sit dead center, because of Nancy. We'd watch the Rat Pack in the center ring and you couldn't ask for a better thing.

  James Darren

  Watches, Nancy, Planes

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• It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person.

  Jean Harris

  People, Watches, Would Be

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• Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Men, Race, Understanding

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• Cheese crumbs spread before a pair of copulating rats will distract the female but not the male.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Males, Female, Pairs

  "Orgasm Trivia". TED Talk, www.motherjones.com. May 29, 2009.

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• Do not put this product in a big vat and drop rats into it from a cat-walk.

  Dave Barry

  Cat, Vat, Bigs

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• Outside openings to attics, crawl spaces and similar locations should be sealed off so rats and squirrels cant get into houses, garages or other structures. Pet owners should make an extra effort to keep their domestic animals free of fleas and avoid leaving out pet food where it can attract wild animals.

  Frank Hall

  Animal, Space, Squirrels

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• Then one day, we’ll put the reward in the old place, and put in the rat, and, by golloy, the old habit will rememerge right away. habits never really disappear. They’re encoded into the sturctures of our brain, and that’s a huge advantage for us, because it would be awful if we had to relearn how to drive after every vacation. The problem is that your brain can’t tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it’s always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.

  Charles Duhigg

  Vacation, Old Habits, Differences

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• Bathsheba! to whom none ever said scat- No worthier cat Ever sat on a mat, Or caught a rat. Requiescat!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Cat, Caught, Said

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• I've always thought that Boathouse Row looked best at night, when hundreds of electric lights outline the shape of each building, truning them into fantastic postcard themes. I knew, however, from many visits to Boathouse Row, that at the same time, armies of rats were holding maneuvers in the basements.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Army, Night, Light

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• Nobody loves the rat race, but nobody can think of anything else—Satan has us just where he wants us.

  Hugh Nibley

  Thinking, Race, Want

  Hugh Nibley (1989). “Approaching Zion”, Shadow Mountain

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• How is it possible to suspend topaz in one cup of the balance and weigh it against amethyst in the other; or who in a single language can compare the tranquillizing grace of a maiden with the invigorating pleasure of witnessing a well-contested rat-fight?

  Ernest Bramah

  Fighting, Grace, Balance

  Ernest Bramah (2016). “ERNEST BRAMAH Ultimate Collection: 20+ Novels & Short Stories (Including Max Carrados Mysteries and Kai Lung Fantasy Stories): The Secret of the League, The Coin of Dionysius, The Game Played In the Dark, The Tilling Shaw Mystery, Kai Lung's Golden Hours, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Mirror of Kong Ho and many more”, p.527, e-artnow

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• For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as something other than a whoop-de-doo playground, we start to experience personally how threatening it can be, how cruel and unjust. At the very moment when we become, for the first time, both introspective and socially conscientious, we receive the bad news that the world, by and large, doesn't give a rat's ass.

  Tom Robbins

  Self, People, Giving

  "Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates". Book by Tom Robbins, 2000.

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• All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape.

  Angus Wilson

  Pride, Feet, Self

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• The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow.

  Ray Liotta

  Dad, Blow, Pieces

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