"Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it."
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"For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy."
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"Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations."
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"The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world."
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"Ambition is a tricky little animal to tame. It is very skillful at concealing itself from its master."
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"The quad toms are a completely different animal than the standard drum set/trap kit. Playing wise and stylistically, they are two different beasts."
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"I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals."
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"Anytime you work with animals, you begin to see more humanity in them."
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"We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction."
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"We are storytelling animals, and cannot bear to acknowledge the ordinariness of our daily lives."
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"There is something going on now in Mexico that I happen to think is cruelty to animals. What I'm talking about, of course, is cat juggling."
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"Even the minds of animals, such as dogs, lions, cats, and serpents, become charmed with music."
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"Government! Three-fourths parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling - oh, Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any more than an individual could escape bondage to his bowels. But simply because an evil was inescapable was no reason to term it "good." He wished that government would wander off and get lost! (96)"
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"Man is taking over the forests and polluting the oceans, the animal species are threatened. I try to contribute as much as I can. We're really messing up our environment. I try to get people more aware of what's going on so that they can, even in a local way, try to prevent pollution to their lakes and rivers and prevent nuclear dumping in the oceans - it's bad enough that they're doing it in residential areas, but putting it in the ocean! Eventually it's going to pollute our food resources and, if the ocean dies, we're gone."
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"I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little. And you can trust them."
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"Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal."
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"I still believe that man, not having been given the power of creation, does not posses the right of destroying the meanest creature that lives. The perogative of destruction belongs solely to the Creator of all that lives."
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"Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings... I abhor [animal] experimentation with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence... The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
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"Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They have not been created to feed our destructive propensities. If we only knew the mind of the Creator, we should find their proper place in His creation."
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"I was so lucky. I was very broke and I was taking classes at Lee Strasberg's Institute and I saw a 3 X 5 index card on the bulletin board advertising for college-aged girls for a film. That was Animal House."
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