“ Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other. ”
- Charles Lamb- Copy
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“ All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
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“ Humans are amphibians — half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. ”
- C. S. Lewis- Copy
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“ There would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Men think it right to eat animals, because they are led to believe that God sanctions it. This is untrue. No matter in what books it may be written that it is not sinful to slay animals and to eat them, it is more clearly written in the heart of man than in any books that animals are to be pitied and should not be slain any more than human beings… ”
- Leo Tolstoy- Copy
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“ Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals. ”
- Theodor W. Adorno- Copy
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“ To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States. ”
- George W. Bush- Copy
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“ For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends. ”
- Robert Brault- Copy
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“ Nay, master, said not I as much when I saw the porpoise, how he bounced and tumbled? They say they're half fish, half flesh. A plague on them! They ne'er come but I look to be washed. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is and will always be a wild animal. ”
- Charles Darwin- Copy
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“ Restoring native vertebrate herbivores to their natural ranges, while reducing the number of exotic herbivores, could be an effective tool in reducing invasive exotic plants. ”
- John Parker- Copy
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“ Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human. ”
- Edward Bond- Copy
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“ The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism. ”
- Martin Heidegger- Copy
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“ Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote. ”
- Paul Harvey- Copy
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“ We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal. ”
- Walter Gilbert- Copy
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“ Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal. ”
- Charles Darwin- Copy
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“ Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. ”
- C.S. Lewis- Copy
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“ Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire. ”
- Robert Brault- Copy
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“ If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals. ”
- Leo Tolstoy- Copy
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“ I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long, They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things… ”
- Walt Whitman- Copy
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