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• I think you hear, at least as an undertone, and it's going to grow louder, is that we believe that capitalism is the mantra of the day and anything that creeps towards socialism is a problem.

  Tim Scott

  Believe, Thinking, Problem

  "Interview with Representative Tim Scott". "The John King, USA Show", www.realclearpolitics.com. January 12, 2012.

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• No matter how much you sit there twiddling, going, 'We're all doomed', at the end of the day people will always want to hear you play Creep. Get over it.

  Noel Gallagher

  Play, People, The End Of The Day

  "'U2 should shut up about Africa', says Noel Gallagher". Interview with Neil McCormick, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 8, 2007.

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• As God's followers, we must be ever watchful not to allow diluted teachings or secular philosophies to creep into our doctrine.

  Jonathan Falwell

  Philosophy, Teaching, Doctrine

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• You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo' and then laughs at itself for jumping.

  Alan Watts

  Jumping, Laughing, Universe

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• How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

  Wendell Phillips

  Men, Two, Forget

  National Anti-Slavery Standard, 27 Apr. 1867

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• Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.

  Honore de Balzac

  Success, Mistake, Ambition

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.99, The Floating Press

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• Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Kings, Mind

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• Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach,
  So shalt thou live beyond the reach
  Of adverse Fortune's pow'r;
  Not always tempt the distant deep,
  Nor always timorously creep
  Along the treach'rous shore.

  Horace

  Truth, Moderation, Fortune

  Horace, D. S. Carne-Ross, Kenneth Haynes (1996). “Horace in English”, Penguin Group USA

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• The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.

  Oscar Wilde

  Real, Lying, Emotional

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1489, Delphi Classics

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• Envy, slothful vice,
  Never makes its way in lofty characters,
  But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls
  Close to the ground.

  Ovid

  Character, Envy, Vices

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• POET
  If not in a place, where are the People weeping?
  LIBERAL
  They creep weeping in the face, not place.
  POET
  Is it something with which we may cope
  The weeping, the creeping, the peepee-ing, the peeping?

  Allen Tate

  People, May, Faces

  Allen Tate (1947). “Poems, 1920-1945: A Selection”

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• The idiot greens the meadow with his eyes,
  The meadow creeps implacable and still;
  A dog barks, the hammock swings, he lies.
  One two three the cows bulge on the hill.

  Allen Tate

  Dog, Lying, Eye

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.17, Macmillan

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• Why is it offensive to portray a creep and a murderer as a homosexual, but totally acceptable to present him as a religious Christian?

  Michael Medved

  Christian, Religious, Offensive

  Michael Medved (1992). “Hollywood vs. America: popular culture and the war on traditional values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Collecting is the sort of thing that creeps up on you.

  Paul Mellon

  Collecting

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• Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Money, Secret, Vices

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• I had always been led to believe that ageing was a slow and gradual process, the creep of a glacier. Now I realise that it happens in a rush, like snow falling off a roof.

  David Nicholls

  Fall, Believe, Snow

  David Nicholls (2014). “Us: A Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• I've always been timid. I wait for the mating signal, yet I want to show my interest, but I'm too goddamn bashful to go for it! I have no sympathy for wolves. Why can't a man wait and see if there is any interest in them? Every woman wants to be pursued, it's a courting dance, a mating game and it should be that way, played out. The world is full of creeps.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Men, Games, Waiting

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• "Then what can you want to do now?" said the old lady,gaining courage. "I wants to make your flesh creep," replied the boy.

  Charles Dickens

  Boys, Want, Flesh

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.64

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• The popular prophets have underestimated how strange the truth can be. The human brain, that 'perfect instrument,' that 'fabulous electronic dance,' can be our open sesame to an infinitely richer life than we have believed possible. The fluent, liberating, creative, healing attributes of the altered states can be incorporated into consciousness. We are just beginning to realize that we can truly open the doors of perception and creep out of the cavern.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Healing, Doors, Perfect

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• Being veterinarians, we're not supposed to be afraid of any animals. And I'm afraid of spiders. They creep me out the way they move. They got hair and saliva. That's wrong. A bug shouldn't have hair on it.

  Kevin Fitzgerald

  Moving, Animal, Hair

  "Veterinarian Kevin Fitzgerald Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. August 11, 2007.

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• True conviction of sin--how difficult it is, when its appearances and modes of life are so fair, when it twines itself so cunningly about, or creeps so insidiously into, our amiable qualities, and sets off its internal disorders by so many outward charms and attractions.

  Horace Bushnell

  Quality, Sin, Appearance

  Horace Bushnell (1866). “The new life”, p.233

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• Still on it creeps, Each little moment at another's heels, Till hours, days, years, and ages are made up Of such small parts as these, and men look back Worn and bewilder'd, wondering how it is.

  Joanna Baillie

  Men, Years, One Day

  Joanna Baillie (1851). “The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie ; Complete in One Volume”, p.413

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• Night doesn't fall in Rome; it rises from the city's heart, from the gloomy little alleys and courtyards where the sun never gets much more than a brief look-in, and then, like the mist from the Tiber, it creeps over the rooftops and spreads up into the hills.

  Caroline Llewellyn

  Fall, Heart, Night

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• There's probably some buried conservative inside of me, coming out like a little gremlin in my belly that I've suppressed. This is a sort of character I've done before: He's kind of dumb and he's kind of arrogant, and a little seedy. A little coke-y. He's gotten into the cocaine or he's had too much coffee. It's been pretty fun. Not all the songs are like that but it sort of creeps in there.

  Tim Heidecker

  Song, Fun, Coffee

  "How Herman Cain Became a Tim and Eric Character". Interview with David Weigel, www.slate.com. November 12, 2011.

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• To contemplation's sober eye,
  Such is the race of man;
  And they that creep, and they that fly,
  Shall end where they began,
  Alike the busy and the gay,
  But flutter through life's little day.

  Thomas Gray

  Eye, Gay, Men

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.251

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