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• Buffon, who, with all his theoretical ingenuity and extraordinary eloquence, I suspect had little actual information in the science on which he wrote so admirably For instance, he tells us that the cow sheds her horns every two years; a most palpable error. ... It is wonderful that Buffon who lived so much in the country at his noble seat should have fallen into such a blunder I suppose he has confounded the cow with the deer.

  James Boswell

  Country, Writing, Science

  James Boswell (1863). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition Never Before Published: the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.54

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• It’s been a full week since she left and all you’ve done is sulk like a dying cow. (Kish)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dying, Done, Week

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Devil May Cry”, p.115, Hachette UK

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• Do you guys remember that time when we were all definitely going to die and then Ben grabbed the steering wheel and dodged a ginormous freaking cow and spun the car like the teacups at Disney World and we didn't die?

  John Green

  Car, Guy, World

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.272, A&C Black

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• be glαd of life, becαuse it gives you the chαnce to love αnd to work αnd to plαy αnd to look up αt the stαrs; to be sαtisfied with your posessions, to despise nothing in the world except fαlsehood αnd meαnness αnd to feαr nothing except cowαrdice; to be governed by your αdmirαtions rαther thαn by your disgusts, to covet nothing thαt is your neighbour's except his kindness of heαrt αnd gentleness of mαnners; to think seldom of your enemies, often of your friends and to spend αs much time αs you cαn with body αnd with spirit.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Kindness, Thinking, Giving

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• Science is not a sacred cow-but there are a large number of would-be sacred cowherds busily devoting quantities of time, energy and effort to the task of making it one, so they can be sacred cowherds.

  John W. Campbell

  Science, Numbers, Effort

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• [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother of building, by their own efforts, the things they require. Whenever they find it possible to take advantage of the constructive labors of others, this is the path of least resistance. The plant does the work with its roots and its green leaves. The cow eats the plant. Man eats both of them; and bacteria (or investment bankers) eat the man.

  Hans Zinsser

  Men, Roots, Effort

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• You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.

  John F. Kennedy

  Water, Voting, Towers

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• What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Book, Reading

  Jerome K. Jerome (2015). “Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.5, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Kill the cow of your ego as quickly as you can, so that your inner spirit can come to life and attain true awareness.

  Rumi

  Ego, Spirit, Awareness

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• I used to have Mad Cow's disease, but I'm alright Nooooooooow.

  Billy Connolly

  Humorous, Mad, Disease

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• If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Morning, Practice

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• Do you know why that cow looks over that wall? She looks over the wall because she cannot see through it, and that is what you must do with your troubles... Look over and above them.

  John Wesley

  Wall, Attitude, Looks

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• I love to smoke. I love to eat red meat. I'll only eat red meat that comes from cows who smoke, ok!? Special cows they grow in Virginia with voice boxes in their necks. "Moo"

  Denis Leary

  Funny, Virginia, Voice

  Song: Meat

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• You're supposed to eat the cows. They're great big lumbering stupid things - they'd be everywhere if we didn't eat them.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Stupid, Humor

  "Dylan Moran: Like, Totally". Documentary, Comedy, 2006.

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• I could dance with you till the cows come home. Better still, I'll dance with the cows and you come home." Groucho Marx was never one to pass up an opportunity for a play on words and this occurs in his dialogue of the 1933 film Duck Soup.

  Groucho Marx

  Home, Opportunity, Play

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• Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

  George Orwell

  Home, Government, Moral

  George Orwell (1998). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy another cow.

  Jules Renard

  Writing, Literature, Pay

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• Look, Mother, I am never going to be thin. I'm Norwegian. If you wanted a thin daughter, you should not have married a man whose female ancestors carried cows home from the pasture

  Jennifer Crusie

  Daughter, Mother, Home

  Jennifer Crusie (2007). “Bet Me”, p.68, Macmillan

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• No touching Baby Jesus.” “But we’re his parents!” proclaimed Mary Beth, who was being generous to include poor Joseph under this appellation. “Mary Beth,” Barb Wiggin said, “if you touch the Baby Jesus, I’m putting you in a cow costume.

  John Irving

  Baby, Jesus, Parent

  John Irving (1989). “A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel”, William Morrow & Co

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• Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.

  Bill Bryson

  Nature, Years, Hunters

  1998 Notes from a Big Country.

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• First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it's at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There's just a good feel to it.

  Bill Kurtis

  Kansas, Friendly, Chicago

  "My Chicago: Bill Kurtis On Wrigley, City Violence & Beef". Interview with Erin Chan Ding, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 01, 2011.

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• Sorry' he said. 'No, I'm sorry.' 'What are you sorry for?' 'Rattling on like a mad old cow. I'm sorry, I'm tired, bad day, and I'm sorry for being so...boring.' 'You're not that boring.' 'I am, Dex. God, I swear I bore myself.' 'Well, you don't bore me.' He took her hand in his. 'You could never bore me. You're one in a million, Em.

  David Nicholls

  Sorry, Tired, Bad Day

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• I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization.

  Don Marquis

  Civilization, Feet, Atheism

  Don Marquis (2013). “The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel”, p.72, Doubleday

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• I hate sandwiches at New York delis. Too much meat on the sandwich. It's like a cow with a cracker on either side. "Would you like anything else with the pastrami sandwich?" "Yeah, a loaf of bread and some other people!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, New York, Hate

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• Vegetarianism as a moral position is no more coherent than saying that you think it morally wrong to eat meat from a spotted cow but not morally wrong to eat meat from a non-spotted cow.

  Gary L. Francione

  Thinking, Vegetarianism, Meat

  Source: www.believermag.com

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