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• See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails

  Will Rogers

  Inspiration, Fingernails, Happens

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• Mosquito bites Jesus, receives communion.

  Demetri Martin

  Jesus, Mosquitoes, Communion

  FaceBook post by Demetri Martin from Nov 24, 2013

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• The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Dog, Stupid People

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• Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives lives on the death of something else. Your own body will be food for something else. Anyone who denies this, anyone who holds back, is out of order. Death is an act of giving.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Death, Order

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• Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

  T. S. Eliot

  Friendship, Lost Friendship, Should

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.192, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I was a young girl salmon fishing with my father in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in Washington State I used to lean out over the water and try to look past my own face, past the reflection of the boat, past the sun and darkness, down to where the fish were surely swimming. I made up charm songs and word-hopes to tempt the fish, to cause them to mean biting my hook. I believed they would do it if I asked them well and patiently and with the right hope. I am writing my poems like this. I have used the fabric and the people of my life as the bait.

  Tess Gallagher

  Girl, Song, Father

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• It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring.

  Charles Kuralt

  Happiness, Running, Spring

  Charles Kuralt (1979). “Dateline America”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• We go, in winter's biting wind, On many a short-lived winter day, With aching back but willing mind To dig and double dig the clay.

  Ruth Pitter

  Winter, Wind, Mind

  Ruth Pitter (1969). “Collected poems”

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• She tried to allow herself only one biting remark an hour, and she had already overstepped her allowance.

  Anne Stuart

  Hours, Allowance, Remarks

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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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• You've got the words to change a nation
  but you're biting your tongue

  Emeli Sande

  Tongue, Nations

  Song: Read All About It

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• Like a falling star, he descended on the Tarbh Cró, a Cassiline berserker, his sword biting and slashing like a silver snake.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Stars, Fall, Snakes

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.697, Macmillan

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• Nothing so mystical. Human beings hunger for killing, that is all. It only takes a few politicians to stoke division, or a few demagogues encouraging hatred to set your kind upon one another. And then before you know it, you have a whole nation biting on its own tail, going round and round until there is nothing left but the snapping of teeth.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Hatred, Teeth, Tails

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2012). “The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• A black sheep is a biting beast.

  Thomas Bastard

  Sheep, Black, Beast

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 740, 1922.

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• I wanted to be born at the farthest limit of the world. I'll explore it, I said to myself, biting big chunks from it. And when I want, I'll go straight to the core. This is the way of the world I thought in my innocence, round and around the layers of peel until the taste becomes certain.

  Abba Kovner

  Experience, World, Want

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• Don't let the same dog bite you twice.

  Chuck Berry

  Dog, African American, Musician

  Chuck Berry (1987). “Chuck Berry: The Autobiography”, Random House Value Publishing

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• If anything, as a general rule, the cheaper the movie the more creative the experience, generally speaking. Its not to denigrate expensive movies. I dont want to seem biting the hands that feed me, but with big movies, especially with a lot of effects, the role of the actor is somewhat diminished.

  Alfred Molina

  Hands, Creative, Roles

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• It was unbelievable seeing me as an action figure! In a few months, toddlers all around the country will be biting my head off!

  Emma Watson

  Country, Months, Action

  "Emma Watson - Actress", h2g2.com. April 27, 2004.

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• I’m not a mean person, but I have a capacity for it. I have the biting comment formed somewhere in the back of my head — like it’s in captivity. Sometimes people expect that I’m going to be tough. It’s not a bad situation. People treat you better. People are on time.

  Tina Fey

  Mean, People, Captivity

  "Tina Fey: Funny Girl". Interview with Jancee Dunn, www.rd.com.

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• I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family. I'll be around a long time. A thousand years from now, a whole township of my offspring will be biting sour apples in the gumwood shade.

  Ray Bradbury

  Family, Years, Apples

  Ray Bradbury (1980). “The Stories of Ray Bradbury”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• I can't stop biting my nails. It's a bad habit of mine. I like anything to do with math and numbers. I know a lot of people don't like geometry, but for me it's fun.

  Khleo

  Fun, Math, Numbers

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• Remember that postcard Grandpa sent us from Florida of that Alligator biting that woman's bottom? That's right, we all thought it was hilarious. But, it turns out we were wrong. That alligator was sexually harassing that woman.

  Homer

  Florida, Grandpa, Remember

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• Your work isn't a high stakes, nail-biting professional challenge. It's a form of play. Lighten up and have fun with it.

  Sol LeWitt

  Fun, Play, Challenges

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• Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed at the horrors of history, at the continuing impact of colonization, and at the biting knowledge that living as an exile in one's own land necessitates. . . . Certainly the time frame we presently inhabit has much that is shabby and tricky to offer; and much that needs to be treated with laughter and ironic humor.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Laughter, Land, Impact

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• Alice doesn't seem to mind because she's laughing too, and biting her lip, all doe-eyed, and tossing her freshly washed hair, and Norton tosses his lovely, glossy hair back, and she tosses her hair in return, and he tosses his, and she tosses hers, and it;s like some mating ritual on a wildlife program.

  David Nicholls

  Hair, Laughing, Lovely

  David Nicholls (2004). “A Question of Attraction: A Novel”, p.363, Villard

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