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The idea of an incarnation of God is absurd: why should the human race think itself so superior to bees, ants, and elephants as to be put in this unique relation to its maker? . . Christians are like a council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of worms on a dung-hill croaking and squeaking "for our sakes was the world created."
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Julian the Apostate
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind- boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.
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Gene Spafford, 1992
They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.
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last words of Gen. John Sedgwick 1864
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.
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Kelvin Throop
An elephant: A mouse built to government specifications.
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Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
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.
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William F. Buckley Jr. - in response to previous statement
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