For millions of years flowers have been producing thorns. For millions of years sheep have been eating them all the same. And it's not serious, trying to understand why flowers go to such trouble to produce thorns that are good for nothing? It's not important, the war between the sheep and the flowers? It's no more serious and more important than the numbers that fat red gentleman is adding up? Suppose I happen to know a unique flower, one that exists nowhere in the world except on my planet, one that a little sheep can wipe out in a single bite one morning, just like that, without even realizing what he'd doing - that isn't important? If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself 'My flower's up there somewhere...' But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn't important?

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Tags: love war stars roses flowers importance uniqueness longing protection sheep thorns



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...freedom is of more account than the height of a roof beam. I ought to know; mine cost me eighteen years' slavery. The man who lives on his own land is an independent man. He is his own master. If I can keep my sheep alive through winter and can pay what has been stipulated from year to year - then I pay what has been stipulated; and I have kept my sheep alive. No, it is freedom that we are all after, Titla. He who pays his way is a king. He who keeps his sheep alive through the winter lives in a palace.

Halldór Laxness

Tags: freedom solitude independence debt sheep



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Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?

John Kennedy Toole

Tags: absurd satire attitude intellectual hilarious sheep ass contempt curmudgeon pompous meatsacks mouthbreathers pronouncements



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If you and every person in the county mailed
me an envelope of five to ten dollars, I think
I could rehabilitate the sheep.

Terrance Hayes

Tags: sheep



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People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.

Jess C. Scott

Tags: humor entertainment media television dark-humor mass-media herd-mentality sheep pop-culture sheeple hype mindlessness mainstream-media sheep-mentality



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There is no heroism in sheep. They stand on the hill and go “Baa”, as they’re being slaughtered.

Skip Coryell

Tags: heroism sheep hill slaughter baa



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either you get eaten by a wolf today or else the shepherd saves you from the wolf so he can sell you to the butcher tomorrow

Ogden Nash

Tags: sheep wolf butcher its-snug-to-be-smug shepher



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He glanced at the sheep photograph and nodded to himself. In his present state it did not seem strange to him that the police were apprehending sheep.

John Ajvide Lindqvist

Tags: sheep



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The obituary writers drew their incomplete sketches, touring through his life like travelers to England who do not ever see swans, sheep, bicycles, and blue eyes.

Mark Helprin

Tags: england sheep travelers bicycles obituary blue-eyes swans



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Respect the sheep.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Tags: sheep



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