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• Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Country, Spiders, Literature

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• When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease.

  Gautama Buddha

  Peace, Sleep, Gone

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• When the snakes out in that field begin to realize that if one of their members get out of line, it's going to be detrimental to all of them, they'll keep that, perhaps they'll then take the necessary steps to keep their fellow snakes away from my chickens or away from my children if the responsibility is placed upon them.

  Malcolm X

  Children, Responsibility, Lines

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.

  W. C. Fields

  Inspirational, Funny, Book

  In Corey Ford Time of Laughter (1970) p. 182

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• I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!

  Trevor Rabin

  Growing Up, Couple, Government

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

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• The poisonous serpent of afflictions is sleeping in your mind; just as if a black viper were asleep in your room. You must use the hook of precepts to quickly remove it. When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Buddhist, Sleep

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• With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

  Marlon Brando

  Long, Bamboo, Necks

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

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• Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake.

  Edgar Wallace

  Fear, Tyrants, Racks

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• Thunder is no longer the voice of an angry god... No river contains a spirit... no snake the embodiment of wisdom, no mountain cave the home of a great demon. No voices now speak to man from stones, plants and animals, nor does he speak to them thinking they can hear. His contact with nature has gone, and with it has gone the profound emotional energy that this symbolic connection supplied.

  Carl Jung

  Home, Animal, Men

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• Humans withdraw to their homes, and surrender the night to the creatures that own it: the crickets, the owls, the snakes. A world that hasn't changed for hundreds of thousands of years wakes up, and carries on as if the daylight and the humans and the changes to the landscape have all been an illusion.

  M. L. Stedman

  Home, Night, Years

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• I came from an environment where if you see a snake, you kill it. At General motors, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is to hire a consultant on snakes.

  Ross Perot

  Business, Words Of Wisdom, Firsts

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• In the morning I'm like a snake in the spring: I need to lie out on a warm rock and let the sun sink into me before I can start wiggling around and get on with the day.

  Katherine Hannigan

  Morning, Spring, Lying

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• In times to resist, do not step aside; stay solid like a statue! In times to step aside, do not resist; be flexible like a snake!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Steps, Flexible, Statues

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• I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe.

  Richard Gere

  Thinking, Who I Am, Giraffe

  "Gere's gibberish gets a gong", www.cnn.com. December 5, 2002.

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• The mongoose I want under the stairs when the snakes slither by.

  Hannibal

  Want, Stairs, Mongoose

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• Time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.

  Lord Byron

  Mistake, Skins, Hue

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.182, Xist Publishing

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• Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.

  Wallace Stevens

  Nature, Butterfly, Men

  Title of poem (1923)

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• Snake eyes is a gambling term, and an animal term, too.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Eye

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• I have one phobia, snakes. And by snakes I mean intimacy.

  Dana Gould

  Mean, Intimacy, Phobia

  FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Aug 13, 2013

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• But there's a juicy artery in your groin," he said after a pause to regroup, his voice as slithery as a snake on a slide. "Don't you talk dirty," I told him. "I won't listen to that.

  Charlaine Harris

  Dirty, Voice, Juicy

  Charlaine Harris (2001). “Dead Until Dark: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.14, Penguin

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• Snakes are just very instinctive to me. I've been playing with snakes since before I could walk. It doesn't matter where or what it is, from the biggest to the most venomous.

  Steve Irwin

  Matter, Walks, Venomous

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• Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders.

  Steven Morrissey

  Ladders, Tricky

  "'Somebody has to be me'". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2004.

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• So glistered the dire Snake , and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.

  John Milton

  Mother, Roots, Tree

  John Milton, Alastair Fowler (2007). “Paradise Lost”, p.507, Pearson Education

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• Right and wrong can be like bloody snakes: so tangled up that you can't tell which is which until you've shot 'em both, and then it's too late.

  M. L. Stedman

  Tangled, Too Late, Ems

  M. L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• Behind every terrorist stand dozens of men and women, without whom he could not engage in terrorism. They are all enemy combatants, and their blood shall be on all their heads. Now this also includes the mothers of the martyrs, who send them to hell with flowers and kisses. They should follow their sons, nothing would be more just. They should go, as should the physical homes in which they raised the snakes. Otherwise, more little snakes will be raised there.

  Ayelet Shaked

  Mother, Women, Flower

  "Letter from America: Israeli Jews, Hate Crime and Hate Speech" by Dr. Habib Siddiqui, asiantribune.com. July 27, 2014.

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