B. F. Skinner
Psychologist, Behaviorist
"The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience."
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Rats
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Tupac Shakur
Rapper, Actor, Activist
"Perhaps I was blind to the facts, stabbed in the back I couldn't trust my own homies just a bunch of dirty rats"
B. F. Skinner
Psychologist, Behaviorist
"I've often said that my rats have taught me much more than I've taught them."
Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous."
Bertolt Brecht
Playwright, Poet
"If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats."
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"Mickey Cohen: New York, its like being a rat in a maze, everyone living on top of each other, but out here, I can breathe. I love Los Angeles."
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"If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt."
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"What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats."
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"I'm the type of guy who'd sell you a rat's asshole for a wedding ring."
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"Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat."
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"Leopards break into the temple and drink all the sacrificial vessels dry; it keeps happening; in the end, it can be calculated in advance and is incorporated into the ritual."
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"The same rain that drowns the rat will grow the hay."
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"I think we are in rats’ alley Where the dead men lost their bones."
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"Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated."
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"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Then, like a rat, they stop in fear and freeze."
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"It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat."
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"We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat."
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"In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!"
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"Rats live on no evil star"
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"I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while."
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"TV is the rat race of the century."
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"If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat."
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"Nobody near me here, but rats, and they are fine stealthy secret fellows."
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"It was recently discovered that research causes cancer in rats."
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"Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole."
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