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• Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. Call an elephant a rabbit only if it gives you comfort to feel that you are about to be trampled to death by a rabbit.

  Kenneth Kaunda

  Power, Elephants, Issues

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• Once I showed up at my sister's with a baby rabbit I had bought from some children because its ears were cold. I put the rabbit on a hot water bottle and massaged its ears for quite a while. After all, I knew that all healthy animals had warm ears.

  Juliette Gordon Low

  Baby, Children, Animal

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• In the olden days in England, you could be hung for stealing a sheep or a loaf of bread. However, if a sheep stole a loaf of bread and gave it to you, you would only be tried for receiving, a crime punishable by forty lashes with the cat or the dog, whichever was handy. If you stole a dog and were caught, you were punished with twelve rabbit punches, although it was hard to find rabbits big enough or strong enough to punch you.

  Mike Harding

  Dog, Strong, Humorous

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• Two things a novelist can do with a hat: Talk through it or pull a rabbit from it.

  Peter S. Prescott

  Two, Novelists, Bunnies

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• Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.

  Beatrix Potter

  Father, Garden, Pie

  The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902)

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• Winston Churchill is always expecting rabbits to come out of an empty hat.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Bunnies, Hats, Empty

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• When you join the Parachute Regiment they send you on training and initiation exercises. One of the tasks is to accept and care for a pet white rabbit. The young squaddie has to feed, brush, stroke and comfort his rabbit for a week, and become attached to it. Then he has to shoot it.

  Matthew Parris

  War, Exercise, White

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• The difficulty in working with someone on a show like Idol or X Factor is they have an idea of what they think is cool in their heads, and it's important as a producer to maintain control of the session and not let it get side-tracked or chase too many rabbits. But it's also important to let the artist feel like their opinion matters, so that balance is difficult.

  Ryan Tedder

  Artist, Thinking, Idols

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Standing at the edge of our city, a man could feel that we had made this place of streets and dwellings in the stillness of the desert, and that we had done a brave thing... Or a man could feel that we had made this city in the desert and that it was a fake thing and that our lives were empty lives, and that we were the contemporaries of the jack rabbits.

  William Saroyan

  Men, Cities, Empty Life

  "Saroyan's Literary Quarantine" by Peter H. King, in The Los Angeles Times, March 26, 1997.

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• Animal crackers in my soup Monkeys and rabbits loop the loop Gosh oh gee but I have fun Swallowing animals one by one In every bowl of soup I see Lions and Tigers watching me I make 'em jump right through a hoop Those animal crackers in my soup When I get hold of the big bad wolf I just push him under to drown Then I bite him in a million bits And I gobble him right down When their inside me where it's dark I walk around like Noah's ark I stuff my tummy like a goop With animal crackers in my soup.

  Shirley Temple

  Fun, Dark, Animal

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• I've found is that by doing stand-up, I've actually learned how to combat depression. I don't have clinical, but I've definitely had my bouts with it. I just figured out that it's a choice. You're in control of your brain. When your brain is sending you bad information or bad thoughts, you can decide to go to the gym, or write a new joke - or if you're on the road, go to a ball game... something that's going to get the blood going. Or you can let those thoughts take you right down the rabbit hole.

  Bill Burr

  Writing, Blood, Games

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• Essence of newspaper is the large size. You are a reader you're an eagle flying over the desert, you're scanning. You see the rabbit and you zoom down and you grab it. That just happens naturally in a size that fits very well with how the human body works. Got to have a large display and it has to be portable.

  Russ Wilcox

  Eagles, Essence, Flying

  "Newspapers: The Future". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 12, 2005.

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• Went to the grocery store, got everything on my list and went up to the checkout. I put a bag of pet food for our rabbit on the conveyor. The girl looked at me and said, Do you have a rabbit? I looked at here and said deadpan, Nope. Just like 'em 'cause they're crunchy. Here's your sign.

  Bill Engvall

  Girl, Pet, Lists

  FaceBook post by Bill Engvall from Mar 20, 2013

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• Being a cab river is not unlike being a magician--minus the top hat, the cape, the rabbit, an the gorgeous assistant. But you do have an audience.

  Gary Reilly

  Rivers, Capes, Assistants

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• Not for Moorcock the painful, infrequent excretion of dry little novels like so many rabbit pellets; his is the grand, messy fluxitself, in all its heroic vulgarity, its unquenchable optimism, its enthusiasm for the inexhaustible variousness of things.

  Angela Carter

  Creativity, Optimism, Excess

  Angela Carter (1993). “Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings”, Vintage Books

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• Once fishing was a rabbit's foot--
  O wind blow cold, O wind blow hot

  Robert Lowell

  Blow, Wind, Fishing

  Robert Lowell (1964). “Poems, 1938-1949”

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• It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even if they purport to be about rabbits or robots.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, People, Climate

  Interview with Ed Finn, www.slate.com. February 6, 2015.

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• Civilized life, if it is to be stable, must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting. In Australia, where people are few, and rabbits are many, I watched the whole populace satisfying the primitive impulse in the primitive manner by the skilful slaughter of many thousands of rabbits.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hunting, Australia, People

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.5, Routledge

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• Rabbits are a foolish people. They do not fight except with their own kind, nor use their paws except for feet, and appear to have no reason for existence but to furnish meals for meat-eaters. In flight they seem to rebound from the earth of their own elasticity, but keep a sober pace going to the spring. It is the young watercress that tempts them and the pleasures of society, for they seldom drink.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Spring, Fighting, Feet

  Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.25, Rutgers University Press

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• Economic theorists should not make such a production about taking a rabbit out of a hat after having put the rabbit into the hat in full view of the audience.

  Joan Robinson

  Views, Hats, Economic

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• Let the rabbit of free enterprise out of its velveteen bag and too many people would have to be fired, too much idiocy exposed to the light of judgment or ridicule, too much vanity sacrificed to the fires of efficiency. Such a catastrophe obviously would threaten the American way of life, to say nothing of the belief in free markets.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Light, Fire, Vanity

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• Naturally, when a young fellow steps up into a big position, it breeds jealousy among those whom he's left behind and uneasiness among those to whom he's pulled himself up. Between them he's likely to be subjected to a lot of petty annoyances. But he's in the fix of a dog with fleas who's chasing a rabbit -- if he stops to snap at the tickling on his tail, he's going to lose his game dinner.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Dog, Games, Tails

  George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.32, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Most magicians are nothing more than laymen with rabbits on their business cards

  Darwin Ortiz

  Cards, Business Card, Magician

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• art happens. It happens when you have the craft and the vocation and are waiting for something else, something extra, or maybe not waiting; in any case it happens. It's the extra rabbit coming out of the hat, the one you didn't put there.

  Margaret Atwood

  Art, Waiting, Crafts

  Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984

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• Everywhere there was somewhere and everywhere there they were men women children dogs cows wild pigs little rabbits cats lizards and animals. That is the way it was. And everybody dogs cats sheep rabbits and lizards and children all wanted to tell ... all about themselves.

  Gertrude Stein

  Dog, Children, Cat

  Gertrude Stein, Clement Hurd, Thacher Hurd (2013). “The World Is Round”, p.11, Harper Collins

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