John Sununu

The Internet will win because it is relentless. Like a cannibal, it even turns on it own. Though early portals like Prodigy and AOL once benefited from their first-mover status, competitors surpassed them as technology and consumer preferences changed.

American Politician

Beatrice Dalle

I didn't see my character, Core, as a cannibal but as somebody who is extremely passionate and who doesn't have any conscience. She takes her passion to its complete extreme.

French Actress

Will Rogers

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

American Actor

H. L. Mencken

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

American Writer

Finley Peter Dunne

Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.

American Journalist

Herman Melville

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

American Novelist

William P. Young

I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people.

Canadian Author

Stanislaw Lem

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.

Polish Writer

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Polish Poet

Arlen Specter

The term 'cannibal' can be used figuratively to describe selfish or destructive behaviors.

Not Always Literal

Watch out for historical texts that wrongly label indigenous peoples as cannibals.

Historical Misuse

As an adjective, 'cannibal' also describes animal behavior, not just human.

Not Human Exclusive

Use 'cannibal' as an adjective in scientific contexts to describe animal behaviors.

Research-based Usage

In business or economics, 'cannibal' describes products or strategies that reduce demand for the same company's existing offerings.

Metaphoric Usage

The word is used to describe internal competition that can either be harmful or strategic.

Internal Competition

In technology, 'cannibal' refers to how devices use power, not about consuming food.

Technical Context

Cannibal devices can indicate innovative or parasitic energy use, depending on context.

Energy Efficiency

 and the cannibal spirits that dwelled at the north end of the world, spirits they would have to engage during their Hamatsa initiation. Now, if you begin to look at the idea that these cultures could create different realities, you could begin to understand some of their extraordinary discoveries. Take this plant here.

Wade Davis: Cultures at...

 and thought them to be cannibals, constantly taking people away and returning for more. Afraid of being eaten, or just to avoid further suffering, they committed suicide or starved themselves, believing that in death, their souls would return home. Those who survived were completley dehumanized,

The Atlantic slave...

 But they'd heard some frightening rumors. They'd been told that these islands, and several others nearby, were populated by cannibals. So the men pictured coming ashore only to be murdered and eaten for dinner. Another possible destination was Hawaii, but given the season, the captain was afraid

What fear can teach us PIPE...

 it well like most birds offices will start maybe classifying or the each other the universe by looking at the big if you look at the big the biggest quite huge it's like a chisel and most birds will eat both you know they're both either cannibals and Hardy was at the

Safari Live - Day 348 PIPE...

 now the dynamics is that changing as I said earlier because of the weather of having so much rain and the grass gets you very wet so I expect to see as much as the road could be a bit muddy I expect to see some sort of cannibals in the middle of the road

Safari Live - Day 269 PIPE...

 winter as mothers they need to be able to protect their excavations for beneath the snow they find a lichen known as reindeer moss which is rich in energy and the main winter diet for them and their calves unlike other deer a cannibal muzzle is

A Collection Of Wild...

 unlike other deer a cannibal muzzle is completely furred a necessary protection against frostbite and their legs have a built-in arterial bypass that keeps heat in the upper body where it's most needed

Caribou Search for Food...

 or maybe not after all mantids are cannibals we always want to tell the truth about the natural world but obviously the truth is an endless story it unfolds

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 cannibals I'm talking of them getting grasshoppers getting locusts getting small mammals rodents mice and once some world you also got them catching snakes

Safari Live - Day 288 PIPE...

 and total darkness may seem too hostile for life but incredibly these vents have created oases in the deserts of the deep from cannibal crabs

Cannibal

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