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Gary L. Francione quote: "People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent..."
People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices Gary L. Francione
There are transitional forms between the metals and non-metals; between chemical combinations and simple mixtures, between animals and plants, between phanerogams and cryptogams, and between mammals and birds [...]. The improbability may henceforth be taken for granted of finding in Nature a sharp cleavage between all that is masculine on the one side and all that is feminine on the other; or that any living being is so simple in this respect that it can be put wholly on one side, or wholly... Otto Weininger
Lady Gaga quote: "Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't..."
Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are. Lady Gaga
George R. R. Martin quote: "I can be humbler than anyone."
I can be humbler than anyone. George R. R. Martin
Wish me everything that you can wish for the woman you dearly love, and I have as good as got it, John. I have better than got it, John. Charles Dickens
I hate and fear violence myself, have always avoided barroom brawls, and tho' I'm a bit of a gun-nut, and a member of the NRA, I never shoot at anything but beer cans and mule deer. (In season.) And seldom hit either, except by accident. Edward Abbey
Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel. Stephen Covey
As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected. From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form. Charles Darwin
You're going to have things to repent, boy,' Mr. John had told Nick. 'That's one of the best things there is. You can always decide whether to repent them or not. But the thing is to have them. Ernest Hemingway
When we see that almost everything men devote their lives to attain, sparing no effort and encountering a thousand toils and dangers in the process, has, in the end, no further object than to raise themselves in the estimation of others; when we see that not only offices, titles, decorations, but also wealth, nay, even knowledge[1] and art, are striven for only to obtain, as the ultimate goal of all effort, greater respect from one's fellowmen,—is not this a lamentable proof of the extent to... Arthur Schopenhauer
Albert Einstein quote: "You do not really understand something unless you can explain..."
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. Albert Einstein
But I never looked like that!’ - How do you know? What is the ‘you’ you might or might not look like? Where do you find it - by which morphological or expressive calibration? Where is your authentic body? You are the only one who can never see yourself except as an image; you never see your eyes unless they are dulled by the gaze they rest upon the mirror or the lens (I am interested in seeing my eyes only when they look at you): even and especially for your own body, you are condemned to the... Roland Barthes
I won't fatten them in cages, though. I won't ply them with poisoned fruit items. I won't change them into clockwork images or talking shadows. I won't drain out their life's blood. They can do all those things for themselves. Margaret Atwood
John Bunyan quote: "You have not lived today until you have done something for..."
You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you. John Bunyan
Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting. Dean Koontz

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