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Pigs

"Gluttony? I could eat and eat and eat and eat and eat. I'd love to pig out on gluten. I mean, I'm allergic to gluten, but I really want to do that. I want to sit in bed one day and just pig out."

Mean One Day Pigs
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Gardner Murphy Psychologist
Pigs

"It has become accepted doctrine that we must attempt to study the whole man. Actually we cannot study even a whole tree or a whole guinea pig. But it is a whole tree and a whole guinea pig that have survived and evolved, and we must make the attempt."

Men Science Pigs
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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist
Pigs

"Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on."

Children Pigs Elephants
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Claude Monet Painter
Pigs

"Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room."

Sleep Devil Pigs
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Conan O'Brien Television Host, Comedian
Pigs

"I had an amazing experience in Cuba. People there are fantastic. But I do have to say it's very nice to be back home in front of all of you capitalist pigs."

Home Nice Pigs
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Saint Augustine Theologian, Philosopher
Pigs

"Near our vineyard there was a pear tree laden with fruit that was not attractive in either flavor or form. One night, when I [at the age of sixteen] had played until dark on the sandlot with some other juvenile delinquents, we went to shake that tree and carry off its fruit. From it we carried off huge loads, not to feast on, but to throw to the pigs, although we did eat a few ourselves. We did it just because it was forbidden."

Night Dark Pigs
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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
Pigs

"Seventeen, eh!" said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred. "Six years to the day we met, Harry, d’yeh remember it?" "Vaguely," said Harry, grinning up at him. "Didn’t you smash down the front door, give Dudley a pig’s tail, and tell me I was a wizard?" "I forge’ the details," Hagrid chortled."

Wine Glasses Pigs
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Henry Adams Historian
Pigs

"A congressman is a pig. The only way to get his snout from the trough is to rap it sharply with a stick."

Way Rap Pigs
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W. Somerset Maugham Novelist, Playwright
Pigs

"She [Sadie Thompson] gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. "You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!""

Men Dirty Pigs
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Voltaire Philosopher, Writer
Pigs

"Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best."

Years Should Have Pigs
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Pigs

"Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilized society, a prison."

Flower Weed Pigs
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