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• Why, this fellow doesn't know any more about politics than a pig knows about Sunday.

  Harry S. Truman

  Sunday, Politics, Knows

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• A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.

  Irma S. Rombauer

  Saint, Lifetime, After Death

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• The Congressman ascertained that the consulate in Havana had numbers to feed the pigs.

  Erich Leinsdorf

  Numbers, Havana, Congressman

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• We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig.

  John L. Phillips

  Jobs, Space, Mind

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• To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Brother, Sister In Law, Evil

  Abbie Hoffman (1971). “The "steal Yourself Rich" Book”

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• (The pig) hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure - and for such a tomb might be content to die.

  Charles Lamb

  Grateful, Might, Stomach

  Charles Lamb (1839). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund”, p.121

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• PIG, n. An animal ("Porcus omnivorus") closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Animal, Race

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.164, 谷月社

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• Just watch. Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. When you try to take it too far, people turn the other way. I'm just telling you, when you've got a good thing and you get greedy, it always, always, always, always, always turns on you. That's rule No. 1 of business.

  Mark Cuban

  People, Trying, Watches

  "Mark Cuban predicted the NFL's ratings free fall years ago - and his theory might be coming true" by Nathan McAlone, www.businessinsider.com. November 3, 2016.

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• We have to remember that literally within months after Castro's taking office the planes from Florida were beginning to bomb Cuba. Within a year, the Eisenhower administration secretly, but formally, decided to overthrow the government. Then came the Bay of Pigs invasion. The Kennedy administration was furious about the failure of the invasion and immediately launched a major terrorist war and economic war that got harsher through the years. Under these conditions it is kind of amazing that Cuba survived.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Florida, Government

  Source: pennpoliticalreview.org

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• I've always loved pigs: the shape of them, the look of them, and the fact that they are so intelligent.

  Maurice Sendak

  Intelligent, Looks, Shapes

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• Thou frothy tickle-brained hedge-pig!

  William Shakespeare

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• WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were having a fine tug-of-war with it, and its rattling days were over.

  Larry McMurtry

  War, Blue, Shade

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Lonesome Dove: A Novel”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• It's called a sea anchor,' [Evanlyn] explained. 'It'll stop us drifting too far.' Alyss was impressed. 'And you said you were pig-ignorant when it came to boats.' 'I don't remember saying that,' Evanlyn replied with a frown. Alyss shrugged. 'Oh? Well, it must have been me.

  John Flanagan

  Anchors, Sea, Ignorant

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• Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.

  Claude Monet

  Sleep, Devil, Bed

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• My father used to brag that I wasn't a ham, I was the whole pig.

  Jim Carrey

  Father, Ham, Used

  Commencement Speech at Maharishi University of Management, www.mum.edu. May 24, 2014.

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• I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.

  Michael Caine

  Wanted, Ran

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• You can't fatten the pig on market day.

  John Howard

  Money

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• During my drinking decades, I lived like a pig. My room was a hazardous pile of stilettos, tube tops, wine bottles, ashtrays, and old magazines. I valued nothing. Everything that came into my life was disposable: clothes, opportunities, people. My bedroom looked as if my insides had spilled out onto the floor.

  Glennon Melton

  Drinking, Wine, Opportunity

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• Pigs may like honey, but that doesn't stop it being sweet.

  Germaine Greer

  Sweet, May, Honey

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• PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Games, Politics, Fields

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.187, University of Georgia Press

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• In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile - and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: Not necessarily to Win, but mainly to keep from Losing Completely.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Winning, Sheep, Self

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.98, Pan Macmillan

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• Heaped on the floor were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, bartrels of oysters, re-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam.

  Charles Dickens

  Oysters, Turkeys, Games

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• On the three pigs he and his wife own: "We acquired the pigs last year. My wife was born on a pig farm and has always been very fond of pigs. Of course, they are for eating, which is why they are named Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. You wouldn’t want to eat Rufus, Marcus and Esmeralda.

  John Mortimer

  Years, Lunch, Wife

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• My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.'

  Zooey Deschanel

  Mom, Dad, Funny Motivational

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• If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Men, Knives

  Journal, Feb. 1855

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