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If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?
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To an ant on the ground, an airplane probably looks like an ant.
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Ants offer special advantages for some important kinds of basic biological research. The colony is a superorganism. It can be analyzed as a coherent unit and compared with the organism in the design of experiments, with the individuals treated as the rough analogues of cells.
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The ant finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.
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It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.
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Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings.
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Ants and savages put strangers to death.
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The first of the
line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants .
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The stinging insects clung to one another and floated in clumps the size of basketballs, the ants on bottom giving their lives to save those on top. They
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eyes running over me like the work of a hundred biting ants
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I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.
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I ate ants. They weren't that bad.
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Not every ant which stays under the elephant's foot dies; the most powerful cannot always kill the weakest!
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[Insects] are not only cold-blooded, and green- and yellow-blooded, but are also cased in a clacking horn. They have rigid eyes and brains strung down their backs. But they make up the bulk of our comrades-at-life, so I look to them for a glimmer of companionship.
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Ants can live together in solidarity and forget themselves in the community. In a normative capitalist society, everyone is an egoist. In the ants' civilization, you are part of the group; you don't live for yourself alone.
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Not all ants use violence to dominate their world, some use more subtle methods.
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When I was little, I would burn ants with a magnifying glass. But now that I'm older, I'm more of a cat guy.
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Toads, beetles, bats.
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The fiercest serpent may be overcome by a swarm of ants,
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A harvester ant never quits and she never, ever gives up.
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Everyone knows an ant, can't, move a rubber tree plant.
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The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
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If ants had a language they would, no doubt, call their anthill an artifact and describe the brick wall in its neighborhood as a natural object. Nature in fact would be for them all that was not 'ant-made'.
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I wonder how you survived with those sugary lips; maybe there is no ant in your territory.
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The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free.
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Hey, ants!" she shouted. "Please help. Anteater is very hungry, but cannot find any food.
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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Every living creature is the son of the supreme Lord, and He does not tolerate even ants being killed
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I am an ant here surrounded by giants. One wrong step and I will be crushed.
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And real talk, like, seeing these ants and studying them and respecting them, it's like, man, they're in their own community too. They're trying to survive. They love. They fight. They telling themselves something. We can't understand, but one day we will.
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But I saw the little-Ant men as they ran
Carrying the world's weight of the world's filth
And the filth in the heart of Man
Compressed till those lusts and greeds had a greater heat
than that of the Sun.
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ANT (ANT) n.s.[aemett, Sax. which Junius imagines, not without probability, to have been first contracted to aemt, and then softened to ant.]An emmet; a pismire. A small insect that lives in great numbers together in hillocks.
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A whale out of water is over-run by ants.
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For how tiny the world,
This ant's egg-and the sky!
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One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men.
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Ants that encounter in their path a dead philosopher may make good use of him.
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Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.
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Ants do no bend their ways to empty barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth.
[Lat., Horrea formicae tendunt ad inania nunquam
Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.]
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I make people step over the ant trail.
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If you give an ant infinite time, it can move a mountain all by itself.
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From the dawn of agriculture until this very day, billions of humans armed with branches, swatters, shoes and poison sprays have waged relentless war against the diligent ants, furtive roaches, adventurous spiders and misguided beetles that constantly infiltrate the human domicile. For
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That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs.
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So, the ant way of life is very ancient and very successful. As far as human beings are concerned, we've been around for only one million years
too soon be sure.
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The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.
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We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs.
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As a kid, I lived in a fantasy world. I used to believe ants could talk. Not once did they say thank you.
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The ants say: Dude. You have to copy off people to clap? What's wrong with you, kid?
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FURTHER NOTE: This plan can ONLY go wrong in the event of ants. Ants do NOT like being pissed on.
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Dad smiles at me. I suddenly feel so stupid for giving up eating when I was thirteen. The ants say: Forget about it. We're all larvae once.
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A strong ant is better than a weak lion.
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If you stand a lantern under a tree every insect in the forest creeps up to it - a curious assembly, since though they scramble and swing and knock their heads against the glass, they seem to have no purpose - something senseless inspires them.
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At some point, some insect has had sex with a leaf.
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Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.
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The Bull Ants love to eat other small insects, as well as seeds, sweet nectar and fruit.
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These tiny ants have proceeded from His thought just as much as I, it caused Him just as much trouble to create the angels as these animals and the flowers on the trees.
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I kinda always wanted to be an ant.
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The ants say: aren't we all bleeding a little?
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I love insects. They are amazing.
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Viewed as a geometric figure, the ant's path is irregular, complex, and hard to describe.
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As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!
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Cat, gray tabby, calm, watches large, black ant. Man, rapt, stands staring at cat and ant. Ant advances along path. Ant halts, baffled. Ant back-tracks fast - straight at cat. Cat, alarmed, backs away. Man, standing, staring, laughs. Ant changes path again. Cat, calm again, watches again.
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I got an ant farm; them fellas didn't grow sh*t.
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The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.
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Meg gagged. "I hate bugs."
That made sense for a daughter of the agriculture goddess, but to me the dead ant didn't seem any grosser than the piles of garbage in which we often swam.
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Matrona imagined her flush was made of thousands of biting ants, and the soft breeze blew them off her skin as she walked, carrying them back into the wood.
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I used to think how dangerous the world would have been if these ants were the size of dogs. They would have cut the humans in two halves just by a single strike of their flippers.
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The life of an ant and the life of my child should be accorded equal respect.
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I am an ant in the battlefield of the gods. There's no room for pride or ego, and barely enough room for survival.
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Holly, I understand that you are upset because Gemma pulled down your ants, but why did you think pouring motor oil inside her backpack is the way to solve the problem?
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We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
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To a good approximation, all species are insects.
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For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.
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Go to k the ant, O l sluggard; consider her ways, and m be wise. 7 n Without having any chief, o officer, or ruler, 8 she prepares her bread p in summer
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When you learn to feel the pain of an ant, you will truly learn to love this world.
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Man steps on an ant when he can't catch the fly.
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The war of ants over your cloths is prove of your sweetness and attractiveness.
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Sstudying ants just quickly became part of me because I was allowed to wander, explore and find things and figure things out myself. And I saw how much was there and what could be done and how I could make a life of it.
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The knowing ones must have pity on the ignorant.
One who knows is willing to give up his body even for an ant,
because he knows that the body is nothing.
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We are ants on the carcass of the world, spawned out of nothing, going busily nowhere. One of us dies, the others crawl over us to the pickings.
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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
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When there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants.
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I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way.
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Holy crap, were they part anteater?
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The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers.
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How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.
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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties ... they live like ants.
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An ant lifts a stone because it believes in itself, not its obstacle.
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If an ant looked to the towers men build, it could not dig it's own hole
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An ant has no quarrel with a boot.
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Ant swarming City
City full of dreams
Where in broad day the specter tugs your sleeve
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I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.
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Even the ant reached its destination as long as it didn't stop walking.
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Covertly the hands of a great clock go round and round! Were they to move quickly and at once the whole secret would be out and the shuffling of all ants be done forever.
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worms and bugs. They climbed up the
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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Things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys.
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No one feels good at four in the morning.
If ants feel good at four in the morning
- three cheers for the ants.
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Rats. Rats, mice, and rodents.
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Like the previous one, this angel smiles when he sees my blade. He's up for more of a challenge than squashing an ant. At least this ant has a sharp knife and an attitude.
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She raised a little mountain for the ants to climb over. She reduced them to a frenzy of indecision by this interference in their cosmogony. Some ran this way, others that.