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• Without game, men prey on each other.

  Perry Farrell

  Men, Games

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• If it was really true that predation is God's will, it would have to follow for Christians that the life of Jesus -- what after all is the self-disclosure of God -- manifested and vindicated this predator/prey relationship. Such a gospel would be substantially different from the one we currently have.... Instead of raising Lazarus from the dead, the Predator Jesus could only comment that death is God's blessing. Instead of preaching the good news of the coming kingdom of God, the proclamation would run: "Eat and be eaten.

  Andrew Linzey

  Christian, Running, Jesus

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• The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Country, Ambition, Made

  Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. In Three Volumes”, p.229

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• So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.

  Jonathan Swift

  Fleas, Ems, Mathematics

  On Poetry" l. 337 (1733)

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• The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

  Peter De Vries

  Laughter, Humor, Another Chance

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• Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

  Pope Francis

  Fall, Errors, Judging

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• He, who boldly interposes between a merciless censor and his prey, is a man of vigor: and he who, mildly wise, without wounding, convinces him of his error, commands our veneration.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Wise, Men, Errors

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• There is something else I am after, out here in the wild. I am searching for an even more elusive prey . . . something that can only be found through the help of wilderness. I am looking for my heart.

  John Eldredge

  Heart, Helping, Wilderness

  John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.3, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• All beasts of prey are strong or treacherous.

  George Herbert

  Strong, Beast, Treacherous

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.323

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• When stalking one’s prey, it is best to take one’s time. Say nothing, and as sure as eggs he will become curious and emerge.

  Harper Lee

  Eggs, Stalking, Curious

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and lust. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey.

  William Ellery Channing

  War, Men, Evil

  William Ellery Channing (1839). “Lecture on War”, p.11

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• During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.

  Mika

  Kings, Fear, Writing

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• When a lion stalks a herd, he sneaks in close, lies down, and surveys them to choose his victim. He takes his time. The deer or buffalo have no idea he’s near. He finds his prey and then he explodes from his hiding place and grabs it. Even if another, perfectly serviceable animal ends up within his reach, he isn’t going to alter his course. He has chosen, and he would rather go hungry than change his mind.

  Ilona Andrews

  Lying, Animal, Ideas

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Strikes: A Kate Daniels Novel: 3”, p.33, Hachette UK

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• If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Art, War, Fate

  "The Mind of Napoleon" by J. Christopher Herold, (p. 45), 1955.

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• But you can't kill humans It's-- Evil? The world is evil Risika. Wolves hunt the stragglers in a group of deer. Vultures devour the fallen.Hyenas destroy the weak. Humans kill that which they fear. Survive and be strong, or die, cornered by your prey, trembling because the night is dark.

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Strong, Dark, Night

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2009). “In the Forests of the Night”, p.75, Laurel Leaf

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• No hunter of the sky should end his days as prey. Better to die on the wing than pinned to the ground. [Saphira]

  Christopher Paolini

  Sky, Wings, Hunters

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.87, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Why should I stretch? Does a cheetah stretch before it chases its prey?

  Ken Griffey, Jr.

  Doe, Cheetahs, Should

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• The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Money, Selfish, Adversity

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• Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale. Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to th' rooky wood. Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, While night's black agents to their prey do rouse.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Night, Hands

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 45

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• Keep your eye on the prey

  Erin Hunter

  Eye

  Erin Hunter (2017). “Bravelands #1: Broken Pride”, p.8, HarperCollins

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• Modern government has become a universal transfer agency that utilizes the political process for distributing vast measures of income and wealth. It preys on millions of victims in order to allocate valuable goods and services to its beneficiaries.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Agency, Government, Order

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• In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlight, his body a prey of worms, his soul an unquiet eddy, his fortune dark, his fame doubtful. In short, all that is body is as coursing waters, all that is of the soul as dreams and vapors.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Dream, Dark, Men

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• Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Choices, Solitude, World

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “Prodigal Summer”, p.353, Faber & Faber

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• Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

  Albert Camus

  Philosophy, Men, Myth Of Sisyphus

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.31, Vintage

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• At Columbus Circle, a juggler wearing a trench cloak and top hat, who is usually at this location afternoons and who calls himself Stretch Man, performs in front of a small, uninterested crowd; though I smell prey, and he seems worthy of my wrath, I move on in search of a less dorky target. Though if he'd been a mime, odds are he'd already be dead.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Moving, Men, Odds

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