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Sacred cows make very poor gladiators. -- Nikki Giovanni
Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger. -- Abbie Hoffman
I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable. -- Bob Newhart
So, this is my plea to all Western editors and producers: Display the Muhammad cartoon daily, until the Islamists become accustomed to the fact that we turn sacred cows into hamburger. -- Daniel Pipes
Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country and its growth, but the sacred cows have turned into a pack of wolves. -- Ari Fleischer
Sacred cows make great hamburgers. -- Robert Reisner
Sacred cows make the best hamburger. -- Mark Twain
Every sacred cow in the business has to do with economics. -- Gena Rowlands
I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red. -- Rick Riordan
Of all political sacred-cows, education is the most sacred and the most cow-like. -- Enoch Powell
The only sacred cow is an organisation should be its basic philosophy of doing business. -- Thomas Watson, Jr.
Our freedom is our sacred cow; no one should touch it! We must be very pious in this holy matter. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull. -- Ralph Nader
Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale, and the sacred cows you wish to butcher. -- Gene Spafford
In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't want printed. But rather what happens is that the stories get printed with stresses, colorations and emphasis that favor the sacred cows. -- Carl Sandburg
Everybody thinks of baseball as a sacred cow. When you have the nerve to challenge it, people look down their noses at you. There are a lot of things wrong with a lot of industries....baseball is one of them. -- Curt Flood
When you are challenging the young, they can come back at you with language of tremendous power and they are no respecters of sacred cows, you know, the young. There's nothing politically correct about the average young Australian when it comes to use of language. -- Tony Abbott
I'm saying that the leaders of the church have locked the sacred cow called science in the stable and they won't let anybody enter; they should open it immediately so that we can milk that cow in the name of humanity and thus find the truth. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Man is naturally a religious being. His heart instinctively seeks for God whether he reverences the sacred cow or prays to the sun or moon; whether he kneels before wood and stone images, or prays in secret to his Heavenly Father, he is satisfying an inborn urge. -- Spencer W. Kimball
In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society. -- Sam Kinison
I think our grandparents were Victor Frankenstein. I basically am the kind of deeply unnatural creature that Mrs Shelley instinctively dreaded. I not only eat her sacred cows but I eat them with ketchup. While I take her point, I think that transgressive monstrosity and tampering with the life force are both a lot more fun than she suspected. -- Bruce Sterling
The late Christopher Hitchens had the professional contrarian's fixation on attacking sacred cows, and rather soon after his cancer diagnosis, he became one himself. -- Alex Pareene
I've always challenged myself and the people who work with me to take new approaches to traditional business challenges, to push the envelope and constantly ask whether our sacred cows are still producing great milk. -- Irene Rosenfeld
It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace. -- Jonathan Shapiro
Red cattle," Annabeth said. "The cattle of the sun." "What?" I [Percy] asked. "They're sacred to Apollo." "Holy cows? -- Rick Riordan
She looks like the type that might freak out. It's something in the eyes, Frannie. It says if you shoot my sacred cows, I'll shoot yours. -- Stephen King
Go your own way. Question everything. Accept nothing. Accept no dogma, no can't. There are too many people walking around thinking they're sacred cows, and they're only half right -- Rosie DiManno

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