He took to it like a duck to water.


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He took a duck in the face at 250 knots.
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A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
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What if I accidentally hit somebody? Because my dad took one of his friends golfing, and it was, lik...
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Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
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I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
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If it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it could be a really ugly swan.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
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She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
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I hope they don't try to take this duck to water. Indian runners don't swim.
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I can't say I hate cats, but holy cow, dogs are a horse of another color.
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It rolled off my back like a duck
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Gundar seemed to come to a decision.
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I've always had a duck personality. Calm above water, feet going crazy below.
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A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
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When I start a movie, the first day, I feel like a duck.
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He took it like a man.
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Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKE
How to get it, I annoy you???
You are not interested???

What's the idea???
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A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
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Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
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-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II

this is my letter to a young ...
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Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke.
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We are born different to make a difference.
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Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.
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Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.
KEN BLANCHARD
I am a still friend with Dave Crosby, he's a weird duck but I like him a lot.
PETER TORK
[Lisa Graves of the American Civil Liberties Union scoffed at a defense official's assertion that th...
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He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.
PITTACUS LORE
Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.
LEMONY SNICKET
He took it out like a sprinter, and brought it home like a distance swimmer.
JENNIFER LANE
I walk like a duck: very straight up and down. Or like a penguin. It's a dead giveaway that I...
DAVID HALLBERG
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EVANGELINE LILLY
I like down-to-earth people.
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Without The Duck, asking a coach for a picture, you just feel like a goofy fan. But with The Duck it...
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That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's ...
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All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you m...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet g...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
The car shot forward straight into the circle of light, and suddenly Arthur had a fairly clear idea ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Experience is the best teacher.
PENELOPE DOUGLAS
You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.
DOUGLAS PAGELS
Reality is frequently inaccurate.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whethe...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies a...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest iron...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND
I think we have different value systems." —Arthur
"Well mine's better." —Ford
DOUGLAS ADAMS
The problem is, or rather one of the problems, for there are many, a sizeable proportion of which ar...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple."

"Ah, well, I'm...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
After a fairly shaky start to the day, Arthur's mind was beginning to reassemble itself from the she...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
A cup of tea would restore my normality."

[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Screenpla...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
A doctor, a logician and a marine biologist had also just arrived, flown in at phenomenal expense fr...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.
KIRK DOUGLAS
The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded prof...
DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER
Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the w...
NORMAN DOUGLAS
Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find...
NORMAN DOUGLAS
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and ...
NORMAN DOUGLAS
Today's environment is beginning to threaten today's organizations, finding them seriously deficient...
DOUGLAS ENGELBART
I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.
MICHAEL DOUGLAS
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from w...
NORMAN DOUGLAS
He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity -- a state of mind which, by ...
NORMAN DOUGLAS
It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
NORMAN DOUGLAS
It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pock...
DOUGLAS HURD
I've never felt better.
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS
Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
NORMAN DOUGLAS
It isn't by size that you win or fail -- be the best of whatever you are.
DOUGLAS MALLOCH
When you determined what you want, you have made the most important decision of your life. You have ...
DOUGLAS LURTAN
The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing whe...
DOUGLAS EVERETT
People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of thei...
NORMAN DOUGLAS
How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents ...
NORMAN DOUGLAS
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
NORMAN DOUGLAS
So, my argument is that as we become more and more scientifically literate, it
DOUGLAS ADAMS
The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.
NORMAN DOUGLAS
It is known that there is an infinite number of worlds, but that not every one is inhabited. Therefo...
DOUGLAS ADAMS