"A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two. [A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two."
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"As we see censorship it is a stupid giant traffic policeman answering "Yes" to "Am I my brother's copper?" He guards a one-way street and his semaphore has four signs, all marked "stop."
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"There is a giant asleep within every man. When that giant awakes, miracles happen."
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"The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions."
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"You do the work and you want people to see it; but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way."
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"Until I can feel as ecstatic about having a baby as I felt about going to New Zealand to search for giant squid, I cannot have a baby."
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"A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time."
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"I'd like to be a giant enabler."
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"We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!"
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"But what after all, behind appearances, is this seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself returning again to itself, emerging out of its giant self-forgetfulness, slowly, painfully, as a Life that is would be sentient, half-sentient, dimly sentient, wholly sentient and finally struggles to be more than sentient, to be again divinely selfconscious, free, infinite, immortal."
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"Oh, I know that. You know me, baby, I cannot be broken. Takes a giant to snap me in half."
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"I am a giant squid of anger."
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"Our faults are apt to assume giant and exaggerated forms to our eyes in youth."
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"I have seen landscapes . . . which, under a particular light, make me feel that at any moment a giant might raise his head over the next ridge."
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"If God had wanted women to have giant, fake boobs he'd be a lot like my brother."
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"A giant python was discovered in Florida. Spooky news for a state that derives half it's income from a giant mouse."
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"Even the best psychiatrist is like a blindfolded auto mechanic poking around under your hood with a giant foam "We're #1" finger."
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"[Prince Humperdinck] was seventy-five minutes away from his first female murder, and he wondered if he could get his fingers to her throat before even the start of a scream. He had been practicing on giant sausages all the afternoon and had the movements down pretty pat, but then, giant sausages weren’t necks and all the wishing in the world wouldn’t make them so."
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"Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees."
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"Genius may stand on the shoulders of giants, but it stands alone."
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