"After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat."
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"The chicken noticed that the farmer came every day to feed it. It predicted that the farmer would continue to bring food every day. Inductivists think that the chicken had "extrapolated" its observations into a theory, and that each feeding time added justification to that theory. Then one day the farmer came and wrung the chicken's neck. This inductively justifies the conclusion that induction cannot justify any conclusion."
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"Each possession I own is but a stone around my neck."
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"Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck."
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"You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side...The Bending forward and backward of the rowers..."
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"Baseball is 50% from the neck up"
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"Humans were built to look back; that's why we have that swivel joint in our necks"
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"Kids can be a pain in the neck when they're not a lump in your throat."
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"Wouldn't that be an amazing super power? Knowing where to press on someone's neck to make them immediately urinate."
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"The only thing I could think of was turkey neck and turkey gizzards and I felt very depressed."
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"I'm also pretty impressive when I'm shoving the neck of a lute into someone's chest cavity."
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"wit, wit! - I look upon it always as a draught of air; it cools indeed, but one gets a stiff neck from it."
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"When God grabs you by the scruff of the neck then although theoretically you have a freedom to say 'no', in another sense, actually, you can't say no because it's like Jeremiah. 'God, you have cheated me. You called me to be a prophet against the people that I love, and all that I proclaim is words of doom and judgement.' And yet if I say "I will shut up", I can't."
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"I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living."
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"You have to grab life by the throat and squeeze before it grabs you by your neck and breaks it. Own your destiny."
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"Oh, I'm being eaten By a boa constrictor, A boa constrictor, A boa constrictor, I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor, And I don't like it--one bit. Well, what do you know? It's nibblin' my toe. Oh, gee, It's up to my knee. Oh my, It's up to my thigh. Oh, fiddle, It's up to my middle. Oh, heck, It's up to my neck. Oh, dread, It's upmmmmmmmmmmffffffffff . . ."
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"It is very grand to die in harness, but it is very pleasant to have the tight straps unbuckled and the heavy collar lifted from the neck and shoulders."
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"Cobbles and kettledrums! ...I hope this madness isn't going to end in a moonlit climb and broken necks."
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"What do you have when you have an agent buried up to his neck in sand? Not enough sand."
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"I'm not really in a hurry to ever wear a neck brace. That's why I'm kind of positive about it, because I'm healthy."
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