"A Discordian is someone who sees windmills and thinks they might be giants"
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"With books we stand on the shoulders of giants."
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"Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls."
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"I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes."
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"See your life as a giant adventure. Keep pushing the envelope, and remember that every dream starts off small."
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"I suppose I am a snob. I loathe towns. I loathe townspeople. They have small minds and giant backsides. Which is to say, what they lack in interiors they make up in posteriors."
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"Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them."
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"I used to walk like a giant on the land. Now I feel like a leaf floating in a stream"
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"We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual mental crouch."
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"Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease."
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"My giant goes with me wherever I go."
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"What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise."
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"But one man never laughed. He was a giant among men. He was Bobby Darin and he was my friend."
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"What we're doing here will send a giant ripple through the universe."
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"Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths."
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"In fact, the legal system is in part responsible for their very size and growth. And too often when the individual finds himself in conflict with these forces, the legal system sides with the giant institution, not the small businessman or private citizen."
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"Rodeo Drive is a giant butterscotch sundae."
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"Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World."
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"Even if your competitor is still small in size or weak, you should take him seriously and treat him as a giant. Likewise, even if your competitor is massive in size, you shouldn't regard yourself as a weakling."
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"Meditation is like a giant broom for sweeping away any stagnant or blocked energy that you may have buried deep in your body."
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