“ Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008. ”
- Lindsey Graham- Copy
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“ Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing. ”
- John Donne- Copy
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“ When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ Michael lives in a world, I think his main residence is aptly named Neverland. It's a fantasy world. I mean, I'm sitting outside waiting for this interview that never happened. I hear this noise and I look over my left shoulder and it's an elephant and a trainer walking the elephant. ”
- Ed Bradley- Copy
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“ Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown. ”
- Mathew Henry- Copy
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“ When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ I had my first puff on a joint when I was twenty-four and a half, and I was petrified. I thought I was gonna see elephants. ”
- James Caan- Copy
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“ It is the little things that fret and worry us; you can dodge an elephant, but not a fly. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
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“ My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere. ”
- Steven Wright- Copy
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“ Though one should be prepared to vomit rather frequently and disport with pink elephants and assorted grotesqueries while trying often unsuccessfully to make one's way to the toilet. ”
- William F. Buckley Jr.- Copy
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“ If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves. ”
- Douglas Adams- Copy
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“ The only thing I've seen so far are just raccoons running all over. ”
- James Dean- Copy
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“ To get the attention of a large animal, be it an elephant or a bureaucracy, it helps to know what part of it feels pain. Be very sure, though, that you want its full attention. ”
- Kelvin Throop- Copy
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“ I once shot an elephant in my pajamas, how he got in my pajamas I'll never know. ”
- Groucho Marx- Copy
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“ Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficulty: elephants and poodles find many things obscure. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things. ”
- Pablo Picasso- Copy
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“ A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place. ”
- Fontenelle- Copy
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“ The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and tenderly loving to the female of its choice, mating only every third year and then for no more than five days, and so secretly as never to be seen, until, on the sixth day, it appears and goes at once to wash its whole body in the river, unwilling to return to the herd until thus purified… ”
- St. Francis De Sales- Copy
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“ The way a chihuahua goes about eating a dead elephant is to take a bite and be very present with that bite. In spiritual growth, the definitive act is to take one step and let tomorrow's step take care of itself! ”
- William H. Houff- Copy
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“ There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant. ”
- Shao Chi Liu- Copy
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