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Letter "E" » elephant
«I'm afraid we felt the wrong end of the elephant first.»
«It is easier to restrain wild donkeys (Democrats) than to raise a dead elephant (Republicans)»
«If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.»
Author: Bishop Desmond Tutu
(
Novelist,
Spiritual leader)
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About:
Injustice
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Keywords:
appreciate,
chosen,
Chosen The,
elephant,
foot,
injustice,
mouse,
neutral,
neutrals,
not neutral,
oppressor,
situations,
tail
«I have a face like the behind of an elephant.»
«In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim»
Author: John Owen
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Keywords:
deeps,
elephant,
lamb,
scriptures,
shallows,
swim,
The Elephant,
The Lamb,
Wade,
waded,
wades,
wading
«He that can see a louse as far away as China is unconscious of an elephant on his nose»
«I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.»
«It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.»
Author: Havelock Ellis
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Keywords:
ancestors,
antelope,
conscientiously,
curious,
Darwin,
disgust,
elephant,
Elephant Man,
evolution,
instinctive,
nearest,
relations,
ridicule,
spared,
The Elephant,
The Elephant Man,
traced
«It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us, we can dodge an elephant, but we can't a fly»
«In the south suburbs, at the Elephant,Is best to lodge.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(
Dramatist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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Keywords:
elephant,
in the south,
lodge,
lodges,
lodging,
South,
suburb,
suburbs,
The Elephant,
the South