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A rotten carcass of a boat, not rigged, Nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very rats Instinctively have quit it.
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Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

wendell berry

— "Economy and Pleasure"

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The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with Rats should give pause to anyone comparing politicians with those poor, underestimated creatures.

frans de waal

— Frans de Waal (2001-10-26). Do Humans Alone 'Feel Your Pain'?. The Chronicle. Retrieved on 2008-07-20.

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If we are to be the last of the White men who conquered the world; if we are finally to be overwhelmed by a pack of Rats, let us at least face the death of our race as our ancestors faced their death---like MEN. Let us not crawl down amongst the Rats begging for mercy or trying to out-sneak them and pretend to be Rats ourselves!

George Lincoln Rockwell

— In Hoc Signo Vinces

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No! How could I be defeated again by a pack of filthy street Rats?!


— Who: Jafar
— Note: After fighting Sora above Agrabah, he explodes and dies.

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Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles. And ate the cheeses out of the vats.

Robert Browning

— 1842  Dramatic Lyrics,'The Pied Piper of Hamlin'.

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[Footnote:] A few Cobras in your home will soon clear it of Rats and Mice. Of course, you will still have the Cobras.

will cuppy

— The Cobra

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Rats desert a sinking ship. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1150)


— A leader or organization in trouble will quickly be abandoned.

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It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat of the sun, the passage of swallows, the nearness of Rats, the sameness of sheep, the love of spiders, the smell of manure, and the glory of everything.


— 1952  Charlotte'sWeb, ch.22.

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Traditionally, psychology has been the study of two populations: university freshmen and white Rats.


— From the essay "Toward a Theory of Moral Development," published in the anthology The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century, edited by John Brockman

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Nature hav no music; nor would ther be for theeany better melody in the April woods at dawnthan what an old stone-deaf labourer, lying awakeo'night in his comfortless attic, might perchancebe aware of, when the Rats run amok in his thatch?

robert bridges

— Book I, lines 83-87.

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My subjects are like Rats in a basket.


— "Morocco poll - choice or façade?". BBC News. 1 September 2007. 

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You can't make cheese from Rats. ... It's hard enough just milking the little beggars.

arthur m. jolly

— Jenn Gunn, Act II, Scene 2

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Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by Rats, and widows by suitors.

ihara saikaku

— Book I, ch. 5

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Those Rats ... were attacked by the masses tonight and we eliminated them.

muammar gaddafi

— Radio address on rebel forces in Tripoli, as quoted in "Libya conflict: Col Gaddafi faces rebel uprising on streets of Tripoli" in The Telegraph (21 August 2011)

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The old shepherd had died, or got drunk, or got Rats, or got the sack, or a legacy, or got sane, or chucked it, or got lost, or found, or a wife, or had cut his throat, or hanged himself, or got into Parliament or the peerage anyway, anything had happened to him that can happen to an old shepherd or any other man in the bush, and he wasn't there.

henry lawson

— His Mistake, from Triangles of Life and Other Stories (1913)

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Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is read from start to finish, thousands are leafed through, other thousands lie motionless, others are jammed against mouseholes, thrown at Rats, others are stood on, sat on, drummed on, have gingerbread baked on them or are used to light pipes.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

— E 65 (Notebook E (1775 - 1776))

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[Pigeons are] Rats with wings.

Ken Livingstone

— Although Ken Livingstone has used this phrase on many occasions (including at the Greater London Authority 'People's Question Time' on 24 October 2000: see Hugh Muir, "Ken vows no surrender in tube funding battle", Evening Standard, October 25, 2000, p. 6), the phrase is not original. The screenplay for Stardust Memories, a 1980 film written and directed by Woody Allen, includes the following:

Sandy Bates: What was that? What was that?
Dorrie: Hey, that's so pretty. A pigeon!
Sandy Bates: Geez ... no, it's not pretty at all. They're... they're... they're rats with wings.

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These women, capable of the most sublime emotions, of the tenderest sympathies, were openmouthed and screaming. They wanted to live, they were helpless, likes Rats in a trap, and they screamed.

jack london

— Chapter One (The Sea-Wolf (1904))

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When the water reaches the upper deck, follow the Rats.

h. l. mencken

— Mencken quotes this in Newspaper Days, 1899–1906 (1941) as a maxim he learned from Al Goodman

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Think of lab Rats racing through a maze, when you watch the sub-intelligent, dual-panel 'dialogue' ... Each rat runs with a designated, neatly bifurcated (Republican or Democratic) political orthodoxy. Each is a 'maze-bright' rat, and not the possessor and giver of any truth.

ilana mercer

— "'Left' and 'Right' Bamboozling You on Benghazi", American Daily Herald, January 13, 2014

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As an experimental psychologist, I have been trained not to believe anything unless it can be demonstrated in the laboratory on Rats or sophomores.

steven pinker

— p. 84 (Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language (Basic Books, 1999))

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/* dbmrefcnt--; */ /* doesn't work, Rats */

larry wall

— hash.c (Other files)

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But not everyone agreed with her views on the subject, and Singer paid a price for her work. Cult "operatives" dug through her trash, went through her mail, picketed her lectures and sent her death threats. They also hacked into her computer countless times, once released dozens of live Rats in her house, and frequently left dead Rats on her doorstep with threatening notes.


— Margaret Singer, 82; Expert on Brainwashing, Cults Testified at 1976 Trial of Patricia Hearst, Los Angeles Times, November 28, 2003

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Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the Rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners.


— Isaac D'Israeli, Curiosities of Literature, The Bibliomania.

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The concept of man as mass robot was both an expression of and a powerful motive force in industrialized mass society. It was the basis for behavioural engineering in commercial, economic, political and other advertising and propaganda; the expanding economy of the 'affluent society' could not subsist without such manipulation. Only by manipulating humans ever more into Skinnerian Rats, robots buying automata, homeostatically adjusted conformers and opportunists (or, bluntly speaking, into morons and zombies) can this great society follow its progress toward ever increasing gross national product.


— Ludwig von Bertalanffy, General System Theory, (1968), p. 206

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Think of lab Rats racing through a maze, when you watch the sub-intelligent, dual-panel 'dialogue' ... Each rat runs with a designated, neatly bifurcated (Republican or Democratic) political orthodoxy. Each is a 'maze-bright' rat, and not the possessor and giver of any truth.


— "'Left' and 'Right' Bamboozling You on Benghazi", American Daily Herald, January 13, 2014

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Jefferson was against any needless official apparel, but if the gown was to carry, he said: "For Heaven's sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like Rats peeping through bunches of oakum."

benjamin harrison

— Benjamin Harrison, The Constitution and Administration of the United States of America (1897), p. 320; quoting a comment by Thomas Jefferson on judges' apparel.

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The Cerebral Cortex is the surface region of the brain that is most strongly linked to intelligence. A human’s cerebral cortex, if flattened, would cover four pages of typing paper; a chimpanzee’s would cover only one page; and a rat’s would cover a postage stamp.


— Scientific American.[ ]

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Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack Rats and vandalized nightly.


— Roger Ebert, "Critical Eye" column, Yahoo! Internet Life, September 1998, p. 66

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