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Quote by August Kekule

“We define organic chemistry as the chemistry of carbon compounds.”

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August Kekule was a German chemist renowned for his contributions to organic chemistry. His most famous achievement was the proposal of the benzene ring structure, which had a profound impact on the development of chemical structural theory. more

“I can't believe that this world can go on beyond our generation and on down to succeeding generations with this kind of weapon on both sides poised at each other without someday some fool or some maniac or some accident triggering the kind of war that is the end of the line for all of us. And I just think of what a sigh of relief would go up from everyone on this earth if someday-and this is what I have-my hope, way in the back of my head-is that if we start down the road to reduction, maybe one day in doing that, somebody will say, 'Why not all the way? Let's get rid of all these things'.”

“The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.”

Way Want Two Compassion Cruelty Two Loves

Author:Mencius

“He who abstains from anything animate ... will be much more careful not to injure those of his own species. For he who loves the genus will not hate any species of animals.”

Hate Animal Compassion Species Careful Cruelty Animal Cruelty

Book:Select works of Porphyry; containing his four books On Abstinence from Animal Food; his treatise on the Homeric Cave of the Nymphs; and his Auxiliaries to the Perception of Intelligible Natures. Translated from the Greek by T. Taylor; with an appendix, explaining the allegory of the Wanderings of Ulysses, by the translator

Source: Select works of Porphyry; containing his four books On Abstinence from Animal Food; his treatise on the Homeric Cave of the Nymphs; and his Auxiliaries to the Perception of Intelligible Natures. Translated from the Greek by T. Taylor; with an appendix, explaining the allegory of the Wanderings of Ulysses, by the translator

“I had rather, if cruelty has been prevented by the four prints [The Four Stages of Cruelty], be maker of them than of the [Raphael] cartoons.”

Ifs Has Beens Compassion Four Stage Cruelty Print Makers Cartoon Raphael

Author:William Hogarth

“I just really don't like being the center of attention that much. It's kind of ironic.”

Kind Attention Ironic Center Of Attention

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“Who can go to a rodeo and then criticize the hunter? ... an expertly placed bullet would be the best gift a rodeo horse could receive.”

Would Be Compassion Horse Cruelty Being The Best Criticize Bullets Hunters Best Gift Rodeo

Book:Death as a Way of Life

Source: Death as a Way of Life

“"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be cruel, which it isn't.”

People Compassion Abuse Cruelty Sentimental Accusation Implying