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• It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.

  Jim Hightower

  Winning, Race, Donkey

  Jim Hightower (2004). “Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country and It's Time to Take It Back”, p.119, Penguin

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• One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife.

  Robert T. Bakker

  Animal, Sick, Wildlife

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• Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Kids, Love Is

  '60 Minutes' With Ed Bradley, www.cbsnews.com. December 28, 2003.

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• A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Feet, Firsts, Philosopher

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• Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

  Samuel Richardson

  Love, Keys, Holes

  Samuel Richardson (1784). “Clarissa: Or, the History of a Young Lady. Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life. ... By Mr. Samuel Richardson. In Eight Volumes”, p.1206

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• Elephants are contagious.

  Paul Eluard

  Contagious

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• Dear God. Not only am I unemployed and homeless, but I also have a pregnant woman, bereaved dog, elephant, and eleven horses to take care of.

  Sara Gruen

  Dog, Horse, Care

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.296, Hachette UK

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• With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.

  Sara Gruen

  Truth, Secret, Doe

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• Although there are times I'd give anything to have her back, I'm glad she went first. Losing her was like being cleft down the middle. It was the moment it all ended for me, and I wouldn't have wanted her to go through that.

  Sara Gruen

  Giving, Firsts, Losing

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• It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.

  Josh Billings

  Worry, Littles, Dodge

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• What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel

  Plutarch

  Men, Solemnity, Bigger

  Plutarch (1898). “Plutarch's Miscellanies and Essays”

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• The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy; his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure.

  William Shakespeare

  Legs, Joints, Courtesy

  William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson (2003). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.132, Cambridge University Press

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• When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Running, Acceptance, Common Sense

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.

  John Owen

  Swim, Wade, Lambs

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• Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Obscurity, Poodles, Judgment

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 36, 1799.

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• If you've never seen an elephant ski, then you've never been on acid.

  Eddie Izzard

  Funny, Acid, Comedy

  "Eddie Izzard: Definite Article". Documentary, Comedy, 1996.

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• Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.

  Paul Dickson

  Advice, Eating, Abram

  Paul Dickson (2014). “The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate.

  Sara Gruen

  Fate, Two, People

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• Women and elephants never forget an injury.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Women, Never Forget, Injury

  Reginald (1904) "Reginald on Besetting Sins"

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• Jackie had a keen eye for talent, and like an elephant never forgot. And, he was always right on the mark.

  Audrey Meadows

  Eye, Talent, Mark

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• Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008.

  Lindsey Graham

  Girl, Baby, Generations

  "Social Security Debate Starts on a Good Note". "Special Report" with Jim Angel, www.foxnews.com. March 16, 2005.

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• We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it?

  David Brin

  Long, Mammals, Doe

  Orbit Interview, www.sffworld.com. July 19, 2002.

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• Psychoanalysts and elephants, they never forget.

  Arthur Laurents

  Never Forget, Forget

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• I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have any people in it. It will be a live action film - I don't know how much I can say about it, since I still don't know too much about it.

  Trevor Rabin

  People, Too Much, Action

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• Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.

  Matthew Henry

  Depth, Wade, Lambs

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 693), 1922.

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