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• Some days you eat the bear, and some days the bear eats you.
• There is a bear following you around.
• Asses are made to bear and so are you!
• When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and Think of Thing
  you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it....
• Sometimes you get the elevator, sometimes the shaft.
• Homer: Mr. Mayor, I hate to break it to you, but this town is infested by bears.
  Moe: Yeah, and these ones are smarter than the average bear....
• People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
  -- Maria Mitchell...
• Best you take my advice...before the cat eats it.