Kendrick Lamar
Rapper, Songwriter
"I was a black sheep, but now I'm just a goat"
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Sheep
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Gene Wilder
Actor, comedian
"Dont put the sheep on the table."
Alexander Graham Bell
Inventor
"Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods."
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you."
John Calvin
Theologian, Reformer
"The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both."
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"Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep."
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"To protect the sheep, you gotta catch the wolf. And it takes a wolf to catch a wolf, you understand?"
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"If you want to nourish a bird, you should let it live any way it chooses. Creatures differ because they have different likes and dislikes. Therefore the sages never require the same ability from all creatures. . . concepts of right should be founded on what is suitable. The true saint leaves wisdom to the ants, takes a cue from the fishes, and leaves willfulness to the sheep."
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"I'm a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep."
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"Beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing."
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"To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology."
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"I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am."
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"I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a "surly, illmannered, badtempered fellow." ... Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer to anyone who hates hypocrisy, cant, sham, dogmatic ideologies, the pretenses and evasions of euphemism, and has the nerve to point out unpleasant facts and takes the trouble to impale these sins on the skewer of humor and roast them over the fires of empiric fact, common sense, and native intelligence. In this nation of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, it then becomes an honor to be labeled curmudgeon."
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"Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton."
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"Too bad your inner sheep never forgets to follow."
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"We stopped eating meat many years ago. During the course of a Sunday lunch we happened to look out of the kitchen window at our young lambs playing happily in the fields. Glancing down at our plates, we suddenly realized that we were eating the leg of an animal who had until recently been playing in a field herself. We looked at each other and said, "Wait a minute, we love these sheep-they're such gentle creatures. So why are we eating them?" It was the last time we ever did."
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"Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep."
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"And yes, we do have some food. Maybe you'd like to join us? Unless you want to stick with your sheep sushi."
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"It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf."
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"The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:While the Lily white shall in love delight,Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright."
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"According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on."
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"Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf."
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"Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep must learn not to fall in the clutches of the wolf."
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"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty."
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"There are wolves within, and there are sheep without."
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