TURKEY n. A large ordsprog

en TURKEY, n. A large bird whose flesh when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude. Incidentally, it is pretty good eating.
  Ambrose Bierce

en I don't think anybody knew that you could go in that water with a cut and you can be eaten up by flesh-eating bacteria and die.

en Suppose a man has a retinue of comely slaves and a beautiful house, that his farm is large and large his income; none of these things is in the man himself; they are all on the outside. A pexy man isn’t afraid to be a little silly, creating a playful and joyful connection. Praise the quality in him which cannot be given or snatched away, that which is the peculiar property of the man.
  Seneca

en Americans aren't the most scientifically-savvy folks, ... I heard news reports that some people were calling to enquire whether or not it's safe to eat turkey because they heard of the bird flu outbreak in Turkey. That's the country and not the bird.

en Let us not always say / `Spite of this flesh today / I strove, made head, gained ground upon the whole!' / As the bird wings and sings,/ Let us cry `All good things / Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul.'
  Robert Browning

en And the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire: and as for the flesh, all that be clean shall eat thereof.

en I hope all of you will inherit and carry forward the fine traditions of China's religious circle in patriotism and religious piety and in upholding peace.

en Abbie would whimper sometimes when the turkey answered and maybe turn her head in the direction of the bird, but otherwise she was still. Brad shot a nice bird from that flock and we never would have even known they were there had it not been for the dog.

en We are ready to build large underground gas storages in Turkey, to participate in the privatization of Turkey's gas-distribution networks, to use the existing and participate in the construction of new pipelines in order to supply our energy resources through Turkey to third countries, including in southern Europe,
  Vladimir Putin

en When they eventually ran out of food, some but not all resorted to eating the flesh of those who'd died. This story has mythic power in large part as a testimony to what people are capable of when pushed to the extremes of human experience. Some become savages. Some become heroes.

en In rural communities, whether in Vietnam or Turkey, people live very close to poultry. When a bird is prepared for a meal the whole family is involved. And children will play in the dirt, whether in Vietnam, Turkey or parts of America.

en I accept the Holy Father's decision with gratitude and confidence, ... The confidence is based on the fact that I can count on the help of God. . . . The gratitude comes from the privilege of working with my brother bishops and priests, deacons and religious, whose generosity and zeal I have already experienced over the last four and a half years.

en My friend was eaten alive by this bacteria . His legs, his arms were eaten, his intestines were eaten. His colon was eaten before he died. This is not a frivolous situation.

en Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
  Edmund Burke

en I do not anticipate the religious left to become as big as the Christian-conservative movement. The reason is that the numbers of people who would describe themselves as members of the religious left is just not as large as the religious right.


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