"We are destined not to go back to the level of animals that we've come from but to return to being by going beyond thinking."
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"I started thinking what could happen with my art and I realized that the biggest thing that could is that it winds up in a museum. It's like finding a rare animal and putting it in the zoo."
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"Once we get three more directors elected, the Sierra Club will no longer be pro-hunting and pro-trapping and we can use the resources of the $95-million-a-year budget to address some of these issues."
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"North American cats eat more fish than all the world's seals put together, yet we lay the blame on the seals for the declining fish stocks."
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"That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary state of affairs. Everything is in process. Everything - every tree, every blade of grass, all the animals, insects, human beings, buildings, the animate and the inanimate - is always changing, moment to moment."
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"Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated."
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"The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest."
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"Every animal has its own intelligence and sensitivities. They're all lovely, worthwhile, and deserving of our respect."
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"When they face desperation... human beings become animals."
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"I always enjoy animal acts."
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"He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel."
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"Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man."
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"The trans fatty acids (found in animal products and cooked oils) are a factor in breast cancer."
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"I saw that animals were important. I saw that plants were even more important. I was also to learn that compared to many of the other species, we weren't important at all except for the damage we do. We do not rule the natural world, despite our conspicuous position in it. On the contrary, it is our lifeline, and we do well to try to understand its rules."
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"People love their animals so much so that they put little clothes on them and necklaces and booties and things like that. And if you love your animal, then you should feed them something that's not dangerous for them. There's a lot of poisonous stuff that they're putting in a lot of that food, those by-products."
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"If we can hump dead animals and antelopes, there's no reason that a man and another man can't elope."
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"I really love animals and enjoy working with them."
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"Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which become forever indissoluble, continuing after death in a future state of existence ... I would apply this ingenious idea to the generation, or production of the embryon, or new animal, which partakes so much of the form and propensities of the parent."
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"There is One Infinite Mind which of necessity includes all that is, whether it be the intelligence in man, the life in the animal, or the invisible Presence which is God."
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"A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless, with an animal vigour unlike that of any European crowd that I have ever looked at."
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