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Quote by George Aiken

“I'm not very keen for doves or hawks. I think we need more owls.”

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George Aiken was an American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Vermont. Born on August 20, 1892, and died on November 19, 1984, Aiken was known for his conservative political views and legislative achievements in agricultural reform. more

“It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.”

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Author:J. W. N. Sullivan

“Between the murder of an animal and the murder of a man, there's no more than ONE step!”

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Author:Leo Tolstoy

“I think the rapidly growing tendency to regard animals as born for nothing except slavery to so-called humanity absolutely disgusting.”

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Author:Victor Gollancz

“There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier.”

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Author:Melissa Etheridge

“What I build upon I shall be told is a folly that wise men are not guilty of: I own it; but whilst it proceeds from a real passion inherent in our nature, it is sufficient to demonstrate that we are born with a repugnancy to the killing, and consequently the eating of animals; for it is impossible that a natural appetite should ever prompt us to act, or desire others to do, what we have an aversion to, be it as foolish as it will.”

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Author:Sylvester Graham

“There's no reason to drink cow's milk at any time in your life. It was designed for calves, not humans, and we should all stop drinking it today.”

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Author:Frank Oski

“Christian theology provides some of the best arguments for respecting animal life and for taking seriously animals as partners with us within God's creation. It may be ironical that this tradition, once thought of as the bastion of human moral exclusivity, should now be seen as the seed-bed for a creative understanding of animal liberation.”

Source: Christianity and the Rights of Animals

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