Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum, And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on, While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.
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MORGAN FREEMAN If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have wri... CHARLES MORGAN Although every organized patriarchal religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny... ROBIN MORGAN Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, ... MORGAN FREEMAN The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but... CHARLES MORGAN There's something contagious about demanding freedom. ROBIN MORGAN The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves. ELAINE MORGAN Real friends are the ones you can count on no matter what. The ones who go into the forest to f... MORGAN MATSON Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are as strange as hell. ROBIN MORGAN Pregnant women! They had that weird frisson, an aura of magic that combined awkwardly with an earthy... RUTH MORGAN People with insufficient personalities are fond of cats. These people adore being ignored. HENRY MORGAN A careful driver is one who honks his horn when he goes through a red light. HENRY MORGAN Surviving well is your finest revenge. MORGAN NITO I am a little concerned that some of the measures that are proposed may simply increase the number o... ALASDAIR MORGAN It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you (a) become really committed to winning,... ROBIN MORGAN A thorough reading and understanding of the Bible is the surest path to atheism DONALD MORGAN Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange. ROBIN MORGAN Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleo... TED MORGAN I love working with Alec Baldwin. He's one of the five greatest actors ever to live. TRACY MORGAN When Landon Carter, a Virginia plantation owner, read the Declaration of Independence two days after... EDMUND MORGAN The famous convention of 1787 met in Philadelphia to define the additional powers needed to enable C... EDMUND MORGAN I would love to try action films. TRACY MORGAN I have friends who are black, white, purple, gay, straight, Martian, yellow, old, and young. I have ... TRACY MORGAN A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others. FRANK MORGAN Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go arou... MORGAN FREEMAN It's like going to the zoo when you come to my house. I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, p... TRACY MORGAN I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are... TRACY MORGAN Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance... MORGAN FREEMAN If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that d... MORGAN FREEMAN Never turn down a job because you think it's too small; you don't know where it can lead. JULIA MORGAN My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone. JULIA MORGAN Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves. JULIA MORGAN