They actually saw the lion.


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THE LION
The hungry lion hunts best, and we saw which team was hungriest tonight. They handed it to us.
BETH DUNKENBERGER
Our lion numbers have been stable. They aren't increasing as much as they were a few years ago, and ...
ERIC WENUM
It did return last night, presumably to feed on the goat carcass, and it was caught and removed.
ERIC WENUM
He killed the goat and drug it over to the fence, but it's a woven wire fence so he couldn't drag it...
ERIC WENUM
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They alleged 20 of them (the men) were executed and they actually saw the bodies.
KRIS JANOWSKI
I've loved musicals ever since I saw 'The Lion King' on Broadway.
MARK INDELICATO
The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.
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FRANS LANTING
Nobody actually saw him fall, so nobody can actually say how it happened.
ELISE SCHAFFER
I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and rea...
C.S. LEWIS
The lion is not so fierce as they paint him
GEORGE HERBERT
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OLIVIA SUDJIC
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MAX SCHNEIDER
And as a cloud passed over the sun, sending the scene into shadows, the last thing Agatha saw was a ...
SOMAN CHAINANI
Well, we saw a lot of good things. Everybody contributed, Actually, we saw what we needed to see.
JAY BLY
When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.
AFRICAN PROVERB
When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
PROVERB
When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
ETHIOPIAN PROVERB
When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion
ETHIOPIAN PROVERB
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Even a dog mocks a lion when the lion is inside a cage.
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The idea was to honor Eric.
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Eric moved the broom experimentally and made an attempt to sweep the glass into the pan while it lay...
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ANNE REEVES
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MARY MOLNAR
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The Lyon is not so fierce as they paint him. [The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.]
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Though I was standing in front of a mirror, I wasn't really seeing my reflection. I was seeing, very...
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Eric was in control the entire match.
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Choose more on less than less on more.
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Stay truthful, the present might seem ruthful but the future will be fruitful.
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A life to say and no one to hear is better than having nothing for a lot of impatient ears.
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Ariel: “Eric!”
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A Lions love is inestimable ..... attacks in times of fretfulness.
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He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
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Lions do not write lion on their head. They are known by their actions.
LALIT BHOJWANI
They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
BIBLE
She saw him drenched with gasoline. She could actually feel the box of matches in her hand.
STIEG LARSSON
In Chennai we were given a rosier view of the situation compared to what we actually saw.
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Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under fee...
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Is Spring-Ford going to be sending the lion?s share of the students? You bet they are.
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Prime Minister: [on the phone to his sister] I'm very busy and important. How can I help you?
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No one's ever going to shag you if you cry all the time.
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Let's go get the shit kicked out of us by love.
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And you are mine, and you will be mine. They
will not get you. - Eric from Dead and Gone
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See this abdicated beast, once king
Of them all, nibble his claws:
Not anger enough left�...
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Grace of My Heart.
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It's very unlikely Eric will forget that.
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Eric Heiden is a freak of nature.
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My insanity begged for a distraction. (Eric)
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Truth and honesty are quite different. What a person believes to be true always follows when honesty...
ERIC PARSLOW
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in th...
ERIC HOFFER
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
ERIC HOFFER
Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate conscious...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
God can only do for you what He can do through you.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
ERIC HOFFER
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, ...
ERIC HOFFER
The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind...
ERIC HOFFER
To the old, the new is usually bad news.
ERIC HOFFER
The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
ERIC HOFFER
There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
ERIC HOFFER
Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the...
ERIC HOFFER
To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as h...
ERIC HOFFER
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to ...
ERIC HOFFER
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
ERIC HOFFER
The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altoge...
ERIC HOFFER
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
ERIC HOFFER
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses ...
ERIC HOFFER
We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are ...
ERIC HOFFER
SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-eviden...
ERIC HOFFER
The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the b...
ERIC HOFFER
The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do un...
ERIC HOFFER
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
ERIC HOFFER