"But our idea is that the wolves should be fed and the sheep kept safe."
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"People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep."
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"The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of each. But the deserts of every brother are not the same."
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"There is no need for the writer to eat a whole sheep to be able to tell you what mutton tastes like. It is enough if he eats a cutlet. But he should do that."
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"Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay."
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"And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed."
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"The wolf cares not, how many the sheep be."
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"In the end, by having a point of view, by taking a stand for things you believe in, you're ultimately always going to offend people. That's good. It's certainly more important to take a stand on some thing and offend people, than to be careful all of your life and have everyone approve of what you do. Or, as my psychiatrist likes to say, better to live one year as a tiger than 100 as a sheep."
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"Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get - -people,storms, guardian angels, or sheep."
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"Just because you want to be glamorous, don't be a sheep about your eye makeup."
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"They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but us sheep know, true beauty is not in the eye: it lives in the mind."
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"A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to get right are the facts of his own experience."
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"The politics of envy is the politics of this commandment: "Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote." It is the politics of two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner."
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"My wife went into the butchers and said: "You've a sheep's head in your window." The butcher said: "That's a mirror.""
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"The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year."
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"We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little."
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"Is it not strange, that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies!"
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"There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher."
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"some people seem to graze like sheep in the placid pastures of their faith. Some of them were born there and never broke away ... Others, after some wandering, found shelter there and are quiet and content. They look with a bland mystification at the mavericks."
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"Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron."
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