“Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?”
When asked about the presence of communists and other radicals working as organizers for the Steel Workers Organizing Committee; quoted in Life magazine, October 25, 1954
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“Am I the cat that takes the bird?
To her the hunted, not the hunter.”
Song lyrics, Hounds of Love (1985)
“The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven, The Hunter with his dogs pursues his circuit..”
Choruses from The Rock (1934)
Context: The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven,
The Hunter with his dogs pursues his circuit.
“The early bird may get the worm, but it's the second mouse who gets the cheese.”
Source: Silent Spring (1962), p. 52 (Section 7, Needless Havoc)
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Wild Talents (1932)
Context: My general expression is that all human beings who can do anything; and dogs that track unseen quarry, and homing pigeons, and bird-charming snakes, and caterpillars who transform into butterflies, are magicians. … Considering modern data, it is likely that many of the fakirs of the past, who are now known as saints, did, or to some degree did, perform the miracles that have been attributed to them. Miracles, or stunts, that were in accord with the dominant power of the period were fostered, and miracles that conflicted with, or that did not contribute to, the glory of the Church, were discouraged, or were savagely suppressed. There could be no development of mechanical, chemical, or electric miracles —
And that, in the succeeding age of Materialism — or call it the Industrial Era — there is the same state of subservience to a dominant, so that young men are trained to the glory of the job, and dream and invent in fields that are likely to interest stockholders, and are schooled into thinking that all magics, except their own industrial magics, are fakes, superstitions, or newspaper yarns.
In fact, getting the story became the story. His writing could be classified as metajournalism, journalism about the process of journalism.
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 5, Observer, p. 73
That's what they'll say, that's what most people think of it: as a wild dog.
Dr. Kent Hovind Q&A - CSE Projects - Atheism/Evolution 9/10/15 Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfyxsTTRyMA, Youtube (September 10, 2015)
“Some of the locals began to think that maybe Hunter was getting out of control.”
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 16, The Genetic Miracle, p. 299