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"Because animals seem to dwell in the present moment, because their own presence is so instinctive, their attention so unwavering, the offer us a different kind of compassion than humans do. Anyone is lucky to have both human and animal comfort in their lives."

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Alison Eastwood Actress
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"It's easy to just see what you want to see in your own comfort bubble, but to really get out there and experience the suffering of animals is an awakening. I had to become proactive and take a stand."

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Amy Lowell Poet
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"I should like to bring a case to trial: Prosperity versus Beauty, Cash registers teetering in a balance against the comfort of the soul."

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Ansel Adams Photographer
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"Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort."

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Antony Starr Actor
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"People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a threat."

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Arthur Schopenhauer Philosopher
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"We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us."

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Anne Frank Diaries Writer
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"Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again."

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"So now I have confessed that he is thine, And I my self am mortgaged to thy will, My self I'll forfeit, so that other mine, Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still."

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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian
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"In Franklin Roosevelt there died the greatest American friend we have ever known - and the greatest champion of freedom who has ever brought help and comfort from the New World to the Old."

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Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer
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"I'm really impotent against the overwhelming bleakness of the universe and the only thing I can do is my little gift [filmmaking] and do it the best I can, [...] which is cold comfort."

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