"If your cat falls out of a tree, go indoors to laugh."
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"North American cats eat more fish than all the world's seals put together, yet we lay the blame on the seals for the declining fish stocks."
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"Maggie the cat is alive. I'm alive."
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"He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on."
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"If studies on lab rats are any indication, human beings have a deep-seated fear of a big, scary cat being let into their cage."
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"In the dark, all cats are grey."
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"All cats look gray in the dark."
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"I have four dogs, four horses, a cat, and a bunch of wild frogs"
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"It is evident, from their method of propagation, that a couple of cats, in fifty years, would stock a whole kingdom; and if that religious veneration were still paid them, it would, in twenty more, not only be easier in Egypt to find a god than a man, which Petronius says was the case in some parts of Italy; but the gods must at last entirely starve the men, and leave themselves neither priests nor votaries remaining."
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"That got me a look so intense I was unable to interpret it - like the way cats sometimes fix on you. What they mean by the look is completely beyond understanding; but it's meant for you, you alone."
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"I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends."
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"A house is not a home without a cat."
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"I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something."
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"With BitTorrent, the cat's out of the bag."
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"Winners are different. They're a different breed of cat."
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"Animals on factory farms and slaughter houses are mutilated, drugged and abused in ways that would be illegal if dogs or cats were treated similarly. The problem is that farm animals are exempted from the Animal Welfare Act. Therefore, companies often act with impunity."
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"My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals."
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"A cat is like a puzzle with no solution."
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"...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable as bathing a cat."
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"Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and tricks there five hundred years ago will think whatever he likes of me, but it is a stranger form of madness to imagine that the present-day cat is fundamentally an entirely different one."
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