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Diana Wynne Jones quote: "I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat..."
I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across! Diana Wynne Jones
This time it is not a simple, understandable war, within the same culture. This time it is an assault of the animal world upon the house of the human being. I don’t know what you saw in Africa and Italy, but I know what I saw in Russia and Poland. We made a cemetery a thousand miles long and a thousand miles wide. Men, women, children, Poles, Russians, Jews, it made no difference. It could not be compared to any human action. It could be compared to a weasel in a henhouse. It was as though we... Irwin Shaw
...it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths that distinguishes us from the mere animals and gives us Reason and the sciences, raising us to the knowledge of ourselves and of God... Gottfried Leibniz
Laurie Lee quote: "In London, Man is the most secret animal on earth."
In London, Man is the most secret animal on earth. Laurie Lee
...the supply of uranium in the planet is very limited, and it is feared that it may be used up before the human race is exterminated, but if the practically unlimited supply of hydrogen in the sea could be utilized there would be considerable reason to hope that homo sapiens might put an end to himself, to the great advantage of the other less ferocious animals. Bertrand Russell
WHAT vain weathercocks we are! I, who had determined to hold myself independent of all social intercourse, and thanked my stars that, at length, I had lighted on a spot where it was next to impracticable - I, weak wretch, after maintaining till dusk a struggle with low spirits and solitude, was finally compelled to strike my colours; and under pretence of gaining information concerning the necessities of my establishment, I desired Mrs. Dean, when she brought in supper, to sit down while I... Emily Bronte
Simon's initial annoyance with having so many people and animals swarming around gave way to the realization that sometimes people didn't get in the way, but helped make a necessary and tedious job go smoother. Nora Roberts
Benjamin Hoff quote: "If people were superior to animals, they'd take good care of..."
If people were superior to animals, they'd take good care of them," said Pooh. Benjamin Hoff
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "In the outside world, my brother told me, people were as..."
In the outside world, my brother told me, people were as reckless as animals and fornicated with strangers on the street. Chuck Palahniuk
Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. Carl Sandburg
Average reality begins to rot and stink as soon as the act of individual creation ceases to animate a subjectively perceived texture. Vladimir Nabokov
Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to the animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you -- alas, it is true of almost every one of us! Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's the big kids who get everything! They push you out of line at the show... They grab all the cake and ice cream at parties..."I guess that's just the way life is..."In the animal kingdom, we call it, 'survival of the fattest'! Charles M. Schulz
Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would lean over and smell the skin at the base of its paw. This, he would say, as if coming away from a brandy snifter, is the greatest smell in the world! A bouquet! Great rumours of travel! She would pretend disgust, but the dog's paw was a wonder: the smell of it never suggested dirt. It's a cathedral! her father had said, so-and-so's garden, that field of grasses, a walk... Michael Ondaatje
Its big men are mostly little men with fancy offices and a lot of money. A great many of them are stupid little men, with reach-me-down brains, small-town arrogance and a sort of animal knack of smelling out the taste of the stupidest part of the public. They have played in luck so long that they have come to mistake luck for enlightenment." - on Hollywood Raymond Chandler

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