"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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"I'm not 'worked up' so much as 'fed up' with the rat faced whores in the Conservative Party who neglect to invite me to announcements in my riding."
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"But in the prevalent discussion of classes, there are illegitimate transitions to the notions of a 'nexus' and of a 'proposition'. The appeal to a class to perform the services of a proper entity is exactly analogous to an appeal to an imaginary terrier to kill a real rat. Process and Reality"
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"I was a gym rat and I always thought that was a part of my success."
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"If I am ever in the position where I wish to seduce someone I will simply assure her it’s better than rats."
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"I've never thought of myself as being particularly brave - I used to be frightened of the dark when I was small. And I'm not very good with dead rats and things like that. But I face what has to be faced and I hope as best as I'm able."
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"The rats are underneath the piles/ The Jew is underneath the lot."
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"Here's what I suggest," he said. "You pretend that rats can think, and I'll promise to pretend that humans can think, too."
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"I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite, while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel is low."
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"If you made a better rat than a human, it’s not much to boast about, Peter."
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"Well, hello, Peter,” said Lupin pleasantly, as though rats frequently erupted into old school friends around him. “Long time, no see."
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"The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last."
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"Yet, for my part, I was never unusually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it were necessary."
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"It is worth thought what kind of mind or condition or disposition is open to flattery; for poison would not be spread if the rats ate it not."
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"Nick as in my former boyfriend Nick. Ex-rat, ex-boyfriend, ex-alive if I ever got hold of him Nick."
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"As far as I am concerned, collectively, the right wing of the blogosphere is the 'boy who called traitor.' Not a week goes by when I hear that so and so should be ostracized because they are a treasonous rat, they are a commie symp, whatever."
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