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• I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.

  Ed Westwick

  Years, Long, Flesh

  Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. March 22, 2009.

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• I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Children, Fighting, Thinking

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• I've certainly had to bite my tongue on occasion and live to fight another day, so to speak, on certain things. But when you're new and fresh, you come out and think, 'I don't want to screw my chance up, so I'll go along with what everybody else does.'

  Joe Nichols

  Fighting, Thinking, Doe

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• Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Snakes, Long, Cards

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• I used to beat up kids and bite kids and do stuff all the time.

  Russell Wilson

  Kids, Stuff, Used

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• You don't want to bite your nose off to spite your face

  Paul Merson

  Noses, Want, Faces

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• Journalists say that when a dog bites a man, that is not news, but when a man bites a dog, that is news ... Thanks to the mathematics of combinatorics, we will never run out of news.

  Steven Pinker

  Running, Dog, Men

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.118, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I try to only commit myself to things that I think I can accomplish and commit myself to 100 percent. I try not to bite off more than I can chew.

  Queen Latifah

  Thinking, Trying, Accomplish

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. October 30, 2002.

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• What a hell of an economic system! Some are replete with everything while others, whose stomachs are no less demanding, whose hunger is just as recurrent, have nothing to bite on. The worst of it is the constrained posture need puts you in. The needy man does not walk like the rest; he skips, slithers, twists, crawls.

  Denis Diderot

  Men, Twists, Doe

  "Rameau's Nephew". Book by Denis Diderot, 1821.

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• This week it's peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, toasted. And then, I'll put some salt on my hand like I'm taking a tequila shot and then take a bite of the sandwich.

  Jessica Simpson

  Pregnancy, Hands, Jelly

  "Jessica Simpson: 'Nephew Bronx thinks I'm having a girl'" by Ustin Harp, www.digitalspy.com. December 13, 2011.

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• Couldn't the wrong sort of living turn anyone mean? I remembered very well that one day back in Yoroido, a boy pushed me into a thorn bush near the pond. By the time I clawed my way out I was mad enough to bite through wood. If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.

  Arthur Golden

  Rain, Mean, Boys

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• Go slowly, so that you do not bite your tail by accident.

  Christopher Paolini

  Tails, Accidents

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.2410, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.

  Alice Hoffman

  Wise, May, Serpent

  Alice Hoffman (2011). “The Dovekeepers: A Novel”, p.386, Simon and Schuster

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• I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?

  Stephen King

  Heart, Thinking, Life Is Hard

  Stephen King (2011). “11/22/63”, p.581, Simon and Schuster

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• Some philosophers can't bear to say simple things, like "Suppose a dog bites a man." They feel obliged instead to say, "Suppose a dog d bites a man m at time t," thereby demonstrating their unshakable commitment to logical rigor, even though they don't go on to manipulate any formulae involving d, m, and t.

  Daniel Dennett

  Dog, Commitment, Simple

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• It’s like trying to herd a flock of geese,” said Orik. “They’re always trying to go off on their own, they make an obnoxious noise, and they’ll bite your hand first chance they get.

  Christopher Paolini

  Hands, Always Trying, Noise

  Christopher Paolini (2012). “Inheritance Deluxe Edition with Video (The Inheritance Cycle, Book 4)”, p.251, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Her bark is worse than her bite.

  Deborah Harkness

  Bark

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.197, Penguin

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• There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer.

  John Green

  Cancer, Kids, World

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.222, Penguin

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• Beware the Jabberwock, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!

  Lewis Carroll

  Son, Bird, Claws

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 1 (1872)

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• Sometimes I’d get mad because things didn’t work out so well, I’d spoil a flapjack, or slip in the snowfield while getting water, or one time my shovel went sailing down into the gorge, and I’d be so mad I’d want to bite the mountaintops and would come in the shack and kick the cupboard and hurt my toe. But let the mind beware, though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.

  Jack Kerouac

  Hurt, Mad, Water

  Jack Kerouac (2011). “The Dharma Bums”, p.254, Penguin UK

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• I rented Ghostbusters, my all-time favorite inspirational movie. I picked up some microwave, popcorn, a KitKat, a bag of bite-sized Reese's peanut butter cups, and a box of instant hot chocolate with marshmallows. Do I know how to have a good time, or what?

  Janet Evanovich

  Chocolate, Peanut Butter, Hot

  Janet Evanovich (1999). “Two For The Dough: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• Why are we designed to see the world as supremely beautiful just as we're about to be snuffed? Do rabbits feel the same as the fox teeth bite down on their necks? Is it mercy?

  Margaret Atwood

  Beautiful, Teeth, Rabbits

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “The Year of the Flood”, p.413, Anchor

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• Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I'm tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should.

  Anne Frank

  Selfish, Tired, Thinking

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.54, Bantam

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• Caro: "Bite me." Ruby: "I gave that up in kindergarten.

  Kristin Hannah

  Rubies, Kindergarten, Bite Me

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• Goodness! Golly! Good God! Blessed Allah! Zeus and Hera! Mary and Joseph! Nathaniel Hawthorne! Don't touch her! Grab her! Move closer! Run away! Don't move! Kill the snake! Leave it alone! Give it some food! Don't let it bite her! Lure the snake away! Here, snakey! Here, snakey snakey!

  Daniel Handler

  Running, Moving, Blessed

  "The Reptile Room". Book by Daniel Handler, 1999.

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