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• Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal of his candles on a rejoicing night, let her look to him and keep him out of harm's way; or the world will be apt to say, she has a mind to be a widow before her time. She ought, in such cases, to exert the authority of the curtain lecture; and if she finds him of a rebellious disposition, to tame him, as they do birds of prey, by dinning him in the ears all night long.

  Joseph Addison

  Husband, Night, Men

  Joseph Addison, Thomas Tickell (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: With the Exception of His Numbers of the Spectator”, p.48

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• Imagine some foul and putrid corpse that has lain rotting and decomposing in the grave, a jelly-like mass of liquid corruption. Imagine such a corpse a prey to flames, devoured by the fire of burning brimstone and giving off dense choking fumes of nauseous loathsome decomposition. And then imagine this sickening stench, multiplied a millionfold and a millionfold again from the millions upon millions of fetid carcasses massed together in the reeking darkness, a huge and rotting human fungus. Imagine all this, and you will have some idea of the horror of the stench of hell.

  James Joyce

  Ideas, Fire, Flames

  James Joyce (2005). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.138, Collector's Library

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• Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years, Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe Are brackish with the salt of human tears! Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow Claspest the limits of mortality! And sick of prey, yet howling on for more, Vomitest thy wrecks on its inhospitable shore, Treacherous in calm, and terrible in storm, Who shall put forth on thee, Unfathomable sea?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Ocean, Years, Sea

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.292

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• A new danger now beset him [Grotius], the danger of becoming simply a venal pleader, a creature who grinds out arguments on this or that side, for this or that client: a mere legal beast of prey. Fortunately for himself and for the world he took a higher view of his life-work: his determination clearly was to make himself a thoroughly equipped jurist, and then, as he rose more and more in his profession, to use his powers for the good of his country and of mankind.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Country, Determination, Views

  "Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason". Book by Andrew Dickson White, p. 59, 1915.

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• So lonely I make friends with the ravens that prey on lambs.

  Hannah Kent

  Lonely, Ravens, Lambs

  Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.110, Pan Macmillan

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• Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn't exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn't possible: or else, socialism was that, this abominable monster, this police state, the power of beasts of prey.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Country, Police, Monsters

  "Les Temps modernes". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, p. 184, 1961.

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• Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Vanity, Light

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1852). “The Works of William Shakespeare: Comprising His Dramatic and Poetical Works, Complete ; Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy”, p.367

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• The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Running, Path, Parallels

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (2015). “Average Jones”, p.9, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Families cannot prosper and keep America strong if government becomes a Goliath that preys upon their wealth, usurps their rights, and crushes their spirit.

  Ronald Reagan

  Crush, Strong, Rights

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• The hegemony of finance and the banks has produced the indebted. Control over information and communication networks has created the mediatized. The security regime and the generalized state of exception have constructed a figure prey to fear and yearning for protection—the securitized. And the corruption of democracy has forged a strange, depoliticized figure, the represented. These subjective figures constitute the social terrain on which—and against which—movements of resistance and rebellion must act.

  Michael Hardt

  Communication, Democracies Have, Democracy

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• There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.

  Samuel Johnson

  Law, Ruffian, Relentless

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical”, p.571

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• With so many mind-bytes to be downloaded, so many mental codons to be replicated, it is no wonder that child brains are gullible, open to almost any suggestion, vulnerable to subversion, easy prey to Moonies, Scientologists and nuns. Like immune-deficient patients, children are wide open to mental infections that adults might brush off without effort.

  Richard Dawkins

  Children, Effort, Brain

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The essence of practice is always the same: instead of falling prey to a chain reaction of revenge or self-hatred, we gradually learn to catch the emotional reaction and drop the story lines.

  Pema Chodron

  Revenge, Fall, Emotional

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.46, Shambhala Publications

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• I seek … the means to fight injustice. To turn fear against those who prey on the fearful.

  Christian Bale

  Mean, Fighting, Injustice

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• Study yourself the way a hunter studied prey. Exploit your own weaknesses to create desired changes within yourself.

  Grant Morrison

  Weakness, Hunters, Way

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• Through prayer, charity and humility before God, people receive a heart which is firm and merciful, attentive and generous, a heart which is not closed, indifferent or prey to the globalization of indifference.

  Pope Francis

  Prayer, Heart, Humility

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• The hunt is on and brother you're the prey.

  Curtis Mayfield

  Brother, Hunts

  Song: New World Order, Album: New World Order

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• The way to reason with a predator is to make it aware that it can live in a cage, or it can die, but it can no longer prey upon us.

  Massad Ayoob

  Predator, Way, Cages

  "An Interview With A Lethal Man". Interview with Peter Evans, Helen Evans, www.freerepublic.com. February 8, 2005.

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• The criminal does not expect his prey to fight back. May he never choose you, but, if he does, surprise him.

  Jeff Cooper

  Fighting, Criminals, Doe

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• A prisoner unaware is the kind of prisoner most vulnerable to her captors, the easiest prey there is.

  Beth Moore

  Kind, Vulnerable, Prisoner

  Beth Moore (2007). “Breaking Free Day by Day: A Year of Walking in Liberty”, p.121, B&H Publishing Group

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• Do you know who taught the eagles to find their prey? Well, that same God teaches His hungry children to find their Father in His Word.

  William Tyndale

  Children, Father, Eagles

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• Just as God's love entered the world, thereby submitting to the misunderstanding and ambiguity that characterize everything worldly, so also Christian love does not exist anywhere but in the worldly, in an infinite variety of concrete worldly action, and subject to misunderstanding and condemnation. Every attempt to portray a Christianity of 'pure' love purged of worldly 'impurities' is a false purism and perfectionism that scorns God's becoming human and falls prey to the fate of all ideologies. God was not too pure to enter the world.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Fall, Fate

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• The ancient feud between cat and dog is not forgotten in the north, for the Lynx is the deadly foe of the Fox and habitually kills it when there is soft snow and scarcity of easier prey.

  Ernest Thompson Seton

  Dog, Cat, Snow

  Ernest Thompson Seton (2010). “The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe Journey”, p.64, BoD – Books on Demand

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• During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Chess, Beast, Strategy

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• My hope is that the generous instincts of unity will not depart from us...[so that we] become the prey of the little folk who exist in every country and who frolic alongside the Juggernaut car of war to see what fun or notoriety they can extract from the proceedings.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Fun, War

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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