"The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at."
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"But the owls themselves are not hard to find, silent and on the wing, with their ear tufts flat against their heads as they fly and their huge wings alternately gliding and flapping as they maneuver through the trees. Athena's owl of wisdom and Merlin's companion, Archimedes, were screech owls surely, not this bird with the glassy gaze, restless on the bough, nothing but blood on its mind."
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"But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams."
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"I read the Bible and know little of its history, but the human beings who wrote it were instruments of Divine Power, and Jesus forged a far stronger bond than the ten commandments: love. Birds and monkeys, or any of God's creatures, obey their instincts and merely do what they're programmed to do. In the case of the human being, things are more complicated because we know about love and its traps."
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"Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation." "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you."
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"Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure"
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"Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like."
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"I don't look like no kiwi bird"
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"Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself. When you look at it or hold it & let it be without imposing a word of mental label on it, a sense of awe, of wonder, arises within you. Its essence silently communicates itself to you and reflects your own essence back to you."
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"Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?"
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"Tomorrow, the birds will sing. Be brave. Face life."
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"The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep."
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"I don't know whether the bird you are holding is dead or alive, but what I do know is that it is in your hands. It is in your hands."
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"Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent."
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"A bird in the hand is worth more than a Bush."
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"A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements."
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"Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away."
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"If you want to see birds, you must have birds in your heart."
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"The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?"
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"Well, the truth is, if you really listen to that bird on your shoulder, if you accept that you can die at any time–then you might not be as ambitious as you are."
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