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• In neidan, the Mysterious Pass represents the time and place in which an alchemist joins the complimentary antinomies on which he or she works, such as inner nature and vital force (xing and ming), Dragon and Tiger (longhu), lead and mercury, Fire and Water, heart and kidneys, or kăn 坎 (Yang within Yin) and lí 離 (Yin within Yang).

  Monica Esposito

  Heart, Fire, Dragons

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• The paper tiger hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Hero, Men, Land

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the effort for a style, instead of leaping upon truth which is the only style worth deadfalling or tiger-trapping.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Effort, Bird

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• There's nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he will. Rejection and ridicule will only strengthen him. And the longer he is held back the stronger he will become, like a mass of rising water against a dam. There is no losing in writing, it will make your toes laugh as you sleep, it will make you stride like a tiger, it will fire the eye and put you face to face with death. You will die a fighter, you will be honored in hell. The luck of the word. Go with it, send it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, Sleep, Eye

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• At the last minute, I couldn't wear the Hitler mustache because Tiger Stripe ate it; and then I didn't want to take my kitty and risk his coughing up some big Nazi hairball on someone's front stoop.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Mustache, Risk, Stripes

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• A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.

  Edward Abbey

  Zoos, Snakes, Earth Day

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• There can be no real fight between a tiger and a chicken; between the love and the man; between the strong and the weak!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Strong, Real

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• Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable attacks and learn from specifics. If someone narrowly escapes being eaten by a tiger in a certain cave, then he learns to avoid that cave.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Risk, Caves, Research

  "Learning to Expect the Unexpected" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, www.edge.org. April 19, 2004.

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• Truly men hate the truth; they'd liefer meet a tiger on the road.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Hate, Men

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (2001). “The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers”, p.579, Stanford University Press

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• Your fingernails are a joke, you've got no fangs, you can't see at night, your pink hides are ridiculous, your reflexes are nil, and you don't even have tails! Of course people aren't content! ... Now if tigers weren't content, that would be something to wonder about.

  Bill Watterson

  Night, People, Would Be

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• To play well you have to have good balance in your life. Tiger has found that. If you play golf long enough you'll learn that life is more than golf.

  Annika Sorenstam

  Golf, Play, Long

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• My favorite player is Tiger Woods. I think I can beat Tiger when I'm 20. It's a life goal.

  Michelle Wie

  Player, Thinking, Goal

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• If you know the point of balance, You can settle the details. If you can settle the details, You can stop running around. Your mind will become calm. If your mind becomes calm, You can think in front of a tiger. If you can think in front of a tiger, You will surely succeed.

  Mencius

  Running, Thinking, Mind

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• For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.

  Victor Hugo

  Dog, Kings, Cat

  Victor Hugo (1917). “The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction”

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• One of the most intuitive nature writers of our recently past century, Peter Matthiessen, lends a poets voice to the desperate effort to save the tiger.

  Ron Franscell

  Past, Voice, Effort

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• They’ll be black because that’s the way they’re seen. Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, Halle Berry, have all known that. Will that change? Don’t hold your breath.

  Andrew Hacker

  Black, Berries, Woods

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• Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Men, Lakes, Sea

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• To write a book such as Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn is a formidable undertaking. You must accumulate thousands of facts and spare no detail, no matter how terrible. It is always easier to write a piece of fluff and leave everybody smiling. But then, the horrors of poaching would continue unchallenged?like as tent caterpillars consuming an apple orchard, our species mindlessly consumes the others of the earth. At present, the most significant hope for our planet may be knowledge, and Richard Ellis has done a heroic job in providing a large measure of that.

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

  Jobs, Book, Writing

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• I like to think of the world's greatest athlete coming up to bat against me - Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky, I don't care who it is - and I'm looking at him thinking, you have no chance.

  David Cone

  Athlete, Thinking, Bats

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

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• We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds. The fox and the deer run away from us; the bear and tiger rend us. We do not know the uses of more than a few plants, as corn and the apple, the potato and the vine. Is not the landscape, every glimpse of which hath a grandeur, a face of him?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Apples, Bird

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.39, Harvard University Press

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• Great Groups need to know that the person at the top will fight like a tiger for them.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Fighting, Groups, Needs

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (1997). “Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration”, p.135, Basic Books

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• It's not my fault if the media and the public are more interested in Tiger Woods than in women farm workers.

  Gloria Allred

  Media, Woods, Faults

  "Gloria Allred's Fighting Spirit" by Leslie Bennetts, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 1, 2010.

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• The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Half, Poet, Potency

  Yehudi Menuhin (1986). “Life class: thoughts, exercises, reflections of an itinerant violinist”, Vintage

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• Being President is a little bit like riding a tiger. You have to keep riding, or else you will be swallowed up by it!

  Harry S. Truman

  President, Riding, Littles

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• Barack Obama will appeal to both black and white voters in America. White voters who'll think he's Tiger Woods.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, Black And White

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