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A White Tiger keeps no friends. It's too dangerous.


Aravind Adiga

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ARAVIND ADIGA Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love - or do we love them behind a facade of loathing?
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ALLY CARTER Just like a kitten that thinks its a tiger.
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FRANKIE BOYLE A tiger does not shout its tigritude, it acts.
WOLE SOYINKA “A tiger does not have to proclaim its tigritude.”
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ASAP ROCKY Having too many friends is as bad as having no friends at all.
VIKRANT PARSAI The funk's got its own Viagra; it keeps you wide awake,
GEORGE CLINTON Friends share secrets. That's what keeps us close.
SARA SHEPARD a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.
CORNELIA FUNKE No INSECURITY makes us sociopathic; too much makes us paranoid; but a little keeps us humble and int...
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DAVID HEYMANN I text messaged Tiger and said, 'No Hawaii for you, more cash for me.
MARK CALCAVECCHIA I text-messaged Tiger and said, 'No Hawaii for you, more cash for me'.
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ERNIE ELS There has been no physical evidence such as tiger tracks found to prove the tiger is on the post.
SAMANTHA BINGHAM One should make good people their friends. One, who keeps good friends, benefits and lives in peace.
RIG VEDA If you do pratikraman of a tiger, then even the tiger will do as you ask it to. There is no differen...
DADA BHAGWAN A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
PROVERB A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
GREEK PROVERB A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
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BIG SEAN No, she who rides the tiger can never dismount!
DAVE DUNCAN Chewing tiger nut is good exercise for the mouth, i love its nutty taste
SOTONYE ANGA One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
MARQUIS DE SADE This was a silly experiment. ... It has been well documented that great white sharks prefer brisket ...
GEORGE BURGESS There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.
BEN BECHT There is no person who is not dangerous for someone
MARIE DE SEVIGNE That was really good shot, ... Tiger made birdie, too. He didn't have to do that.
CHRIS DIMARCO It's too dangerous a journey to risk the cat's life.
CHARLES A. LINDBERGH When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, he calls ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW It keeps us feeling young it keeps us looking young too. I still want shoot my age.
FAYE CARNES Its no use going to the goat's house to look for wool
IRISH SAYINGS Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
MENCIUS (MENGZI MENG-TSE) dangerous and insane government at its worst.
GARETH PEIRCE insane and dangerous government at its worst.
GARETH PEIRCE Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted
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SEAN MILLER Love keeps no record of wrongs, but bitterness keeps detailed accounts.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Death is a dark flower, its perfume heady and dangerous as it pulls you into its bosom.
CAROL WEEKES There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
HANNAH ARENDT If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well,...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself . . . that a tiger is an optical illusion--...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) ...maybe hope isn't such a bad thing. Maybe its what keeps us together.
LAUREN DESTEFANO Tiger father begets tiger son
CHINESE PROVERBS When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
BILL MOYERS Going home and spending time with your family and your real friends keeps you grounded.
JENNIFER ELLISON A love of nature keeps no factories busy.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous.
MENCIUS Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous
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