Khalil Gibran
Poet, Writer
"How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper."
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Ants
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Ezra Pound
Poet, Critic
"The ant's a centaur in his dragon world."
Ramakrishna
Spiritual Leader
"Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant."
Steven Wright
Comedian
"I bought an ant farm. I don't know where I am going to get a tractor that small!"
Haruki Murakami
Writer
"I wonder what ants do on rainy days?"
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"Ants and savages put strangers to death."
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"We living beings, right down to crickets, ants, mosquitoes , and flies, all possess life that is without beginning or end."
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"I don't like the idea that I am going to come back as an ant or a sparrow if I don't get along in the great karma of life."
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"We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs."
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"We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing at all about the habits of the oyster. It seems almost certain that we have been choosing the wrong time for studying the oyster."
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"Forbear, thou great good husband, little ant."
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"..finally he was just another ant, working and working until he died without meaning."
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"Photo shoots for underage girls are like letting an ant walk around with honey."
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"What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment."
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"Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant."
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"...she wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant."
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"Ants are a curious race"
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"This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants."
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"For Dostoevsky, Fourier is one of the industrious ant-hill engineers, busy, protected by the delusion that his goal, the will-ordered society, is the summation of all his desires."
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"That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs."
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"She watched me with a creepy sort of detached curiosity, as if I were a bug crawling across the sidewalk in front of her. I wondered briefly if she was the ant stomper type."
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"Capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, a god, a god of bloody sacrifice that sees human beings as ants"
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"The flower and fruit of love are mine The ant, the fieldmouse and the mole"
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"The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . ."
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"If thousands are thrown out of employment, it suggests that they were not well employed. Why don't they take the hint? It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?"
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