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• In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening.  Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues.

  Alfie Kohn

  Teacher, Talking, Listening

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• In my hand luggage I always have my camera, iPod, make-up bag, tooth brush, cleansing products, clean underwear, socks and a change of clothes in case anything goes missing at the other end - and of course my passport.

  Lisa Snowdon

  Clean Underwear, Hands, Ipods

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• What good is a smooth tongue without sharp teeth?

  Jocelyn Murray

  Tongue, Smooth

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• The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Latin, Years, America

  "Eduardo Galeano, leading voice of Latin American left, dies aged 74" by Ashifa Kassam, Sam Jones, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2015.

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• In school I was always the funny-looking, tall, skinny kid that got made fun of because of my weird teeth.

  Lara Stone

  Fun, School, Kids

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

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• I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.

  J Mascis

  Couple, Years, Gold Teeth

  "J Mascis: 'I never took it that seriously'". Interview with Paul Lester, www.theguardian.com. August 03, 2012.

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• Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.

  Gloria Swanson

  Writing, Stories, Life Is

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• Some devout Christians are among the most fervent advocates of the death penalty, contradicting Jesus Christ and justifying their belief on an erroneous interpretation of Hebrew Scriptures. "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth," their most likely response, overlooks the fact that this was promulgated by Moses as a limitation- a prohibition against taking both eyes or all of an offender's teeth in retribution.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Jesus, Eye

  Jimmy Carter (2005). “Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• I have an easy tendency to stumble and fall, which is not a good thing in an 84-year-old guy, so when I brush my teeth, then I do balancing exercises.

  Walter Mischel

  Fall, Exercise, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My favorite wild animal is a narwhal - the unicorn of the sea. It’s a whale with a tooth that sticks out of its head that’s almost two-thirds the length of its entire body.

  Kesha

  Animal, Whales, Sea

  Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.

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• I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell.

  Steve Aylett

  Book, People, Stories

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• Every expression of desired friendship has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth.

  Dean Koontz

  Friendship, Expression, Bites

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Velocity: A Novel”, p.105, Bantam

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• An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Evolution, Tales, Mating

  Stephen Jay Gould (1990). “Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History”, p.60, W. W. Norton & Company

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• To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct. Baser even than hate, the thing with teeth, which can be stilled with a tone of voice or stunned by beauty. If the whole world of the living has to turn on the single point of remaining alive, that pointed endurance is the poetry of hope. The thing with feathers.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Hate, Voice, Hopeful

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.17, Faber & Faber

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• The usual bad poem in somebody's Collected Works is a learned, mannered, valued habit, a habit a little more careful than, and little emptier than, brushing one's teeth.

  Randall Jarrell

  Usual, Littles, Habit

  "Poetry and the Age" by Randall Jarrell, Vintage paperback, (p. 216), 1955.

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• No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums of Paris . Beginning with the market - where, for lack of money, I bought only a piece of a long cucumber - the workman in his blue overall, the most ardent followers of Cubism , everything showed a definite feeling for proportion, clarity, an accurate sense of form, of a more painterly kind of painting, even in the canvases of second-rate artists.

  Marc Chagall

  Artist, Blue, Paris

  "Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 - 1922". Book by Christoph Vitali, p. 29, 1991.

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• When I first went on Britain's Got Talent I was famous for my cheap suit, my wonky teeth and the fact that I sold mobile phones for a living.

  Paul Potts

  Phones, Firsts, Suits

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• It's a strange thing to think of a man as can lift a chair with his teeth, and walk fifty mile on end, trembling and turning hot and cold at only a look from one woman out of all the rest i' the world. It's a mystery we can give no account of.

  George Eliot

  Women, Thinking, Hot And Cold

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.119, George Eliot

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• There are but two sorts of government: one where men show their teeth at each other, and one where men show their tongues and lick the feet of the strongest.

  George Eliot

  Men, Two, Feet

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1416, Delphi Classics

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• When the teeth are shut the tongue is at home.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Home, Tongue

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Fables: Stevenson's Vol. 18”, p.28, VM eBooks

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• Lastly came Winter cloathed all in frize, Chattering his teeth for cold that did him chill; Whilst on his hoary beard his breath did freese, And the dull drops, that from his purpled bill As from a limebeck did adown distill: In his right hand a tipped staffe he held, With which his feeble steps he stayed still; For he was faint with cold, and weak with eld; That scarce his loosed limbes he hable was to weld.

  Edmund Spenser

  Winter, Hands, Dull

  Edmund Spenser (1869). “The Faerie Queene: Disposed Into Twelve Bookes Fashioning XII Morall Vertues”, p.786

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• My favorite Halloween candy is the candy corn. It comes in four colors: white, yellow, orange, brown. Those are also the stages of your teeth rotting after you eat it.

  Jay Leno

  Halloween, Color White, Yellow

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• This one sits shivering in Fortune's smile, taking his joy with bated, doubtful breath. This other, gnawed by hunger, all the while laughs in the teeth of Death.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Laughing, Optimism, Joy

  THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH (1877). “FLOWER AND THORN”

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• I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.

  William Golding

  Men, Skulls, World

  "The World and the Book: A Study of Modern Fiction". Book by Gabriel Josipovici, 1971.

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• It was not right to believe anything you couldn't see or hold in your hands or test with your teeth.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Believe, Hands, Tests

  Flannery O'Connor (1983). “Three by Flannery O'Connor: Wise blood, The violent bear it away, Everything that rises must converge”, Signet Classics

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