“ It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood. Stones have been known to move and trees to speak; Augures and understood relations have By maggot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth The secret'st man of blood. What is the night? ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ How does one become a butterfly? she asked pensively. "You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.". ”
- Trina Paulus- Copy
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“ In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel. ”
- Karl Shapiro- Copy
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“ Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly. ”
- Andre Gide- Copy
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“ The American public is not aware that there might be potential allergenic and toxic reactions. With regular food, at least people know which foods they have an allergy to. ”
- Jeremy Rifkin- Copy
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“ I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. ”
- A. Whitney Brown- Copy
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“ Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly. ”
- Andre Gide- Copy
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“ I don't believe in evil; I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots. ”
- Isak Dinesen- Copy
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“ The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity. ”
- George Carlin- Copy
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“ There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. ”
- Richard Buckminster Fuller- Copy
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“ There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. ”
- R. Buckminster Fuller- Copy
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“ The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee. ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
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“ TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility. Old Paunchinello, freshly wed, Took Madam P. to table, And there deliriously fed As fast as he was able. "I dote upon good grub," he cried, Intent upon its throatage… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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