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“Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.”

“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.”

“Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:--for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty, man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.”

Source: Lectures Upon Shakspeare

“Through systematic terror, through indoctrination, through systematic manipulation of stimulus, reward, and punishment, we can today break man and convert him into brute animal... The first step toward survival is therefore to make government legitimate again by attempting to deprive it of these powers... by international action to ban such powers.”

“Zoocentrism is the primary fallacy of human sociobiology, for this view of human behavior rests on the argument that if the actions of "lower" animals with simple nervous systems arise as genetic products of natural selection, then human behavior should have a similar basis.”

“It is rather an unpleasant fact, that the ugliest and awkwardest of brute animals have the greatest resemblance to man: the monkey and the bear. The monkey is ugly too (so we think) because he is like man--as the bear is awkward, because the cumbrous action of its huge paws seems to be a preposterous imitation of the motions of human hands. Men and apes are the only animals that have hairs on the under eye-lid. Let kings know this.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)

“In the 24 hours since this time yesterday, over 200,000 acres of rainforest have been destroyed in our world. Fully 13 million tons of toxic chemicals have been released into our environment. Over 45,000 people have died from starvation, 38,000 of them children. And more than 130 plant and animal species have been driven to extinction by the actions of humans. And all this just since yesterday.”

“This weekend the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, featured several speakers including Sarah Palin and Phil Robertson from 'Duck Dynasty.' It was a good weekend for conservatives - and a great weekend for wild animals.”

Action Political Animal Including Conservative Weekend Ducks Speakers Conferences Palin Wild Animal Dynasty Political Action Conservative Political

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain is given some significance then. One can perform as a ritual what one is shamed to do as a utilitarian action.”

Ifs Body Action Given Animal Eating Roots If I Could Significance Ritual Grain Filling Utilitarian

Book:Letters to a Friend

Source: Letters to a Friend

“Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.”

Men Long Running Action Left Growth Animal Safety Occupation Weed

Book:Six Months in Italy

Source: Six Months in Italy

“The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.”

Soul Facts Action Desire Three Animal Virtue Special Elements Capable Function Intellect Related Faculty Sensations Attainment

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“Revenge is the thinking man's reflex, a complex blend of action and consistency no other animal species has so far succeeded in evolving. Evolutionary speaking, the practice of taking revenge has shown itself to the so effective that only the most vengeful of us have survived.”

Thinking Men Action Animal Practice Species Complexes Revenge Evolve Consistency Survived Reflexes Thinking Man Vengeful Taking Revenge

Author:Jo Nesbo

“I want upon death to be buried, just like in the old days, where I decompose by the action of microorganisms, and I am dined upon by any form of creeping animal or root system that sees fit to do so.... I will have recycled back to the universe at least some of the energy that I have taken from it. And in so doing, at the conclusion of my scientific adventures, I will have come closer to the heavens than to Earth.”

Want Action Earth Form Universe Energy Heaven Animal Taken Adventure Fit Roots Conclusion Buried Extinction Want U Old Days Recycled Microorganisms

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.”

Action Pain Life Is Pleasure Animal Common Class Concerned Seeking Beast Avoiding Animal Life Avoiding Pain Bodily Functions Bodily Pain

Author:Saint Augustine

“Action helps you think and raises your self-esteem. Good luck happens when you're in action. Ask yourself, "Does this go toward or away from what I want?" There's an animal in us, and it has great instincts. Scan for a desire and follow it. Set a goal, any goal, and start doing everything you can think of to achieve it.”

Thinking Want Doe Self Helping Happens Action Desire Asks Goal Animal Achieve Self Esteem Raises Luck Instinct Esteem Good Luck

Author:Barbara Sher

“Become better listeners. Practice the art of listening in everything you do. Not just listening to yourself and your body, but listening to the people around you, listening to the plant world, the animal world. Really open your ears to what's coming at you. From there, see if you can have the ability to respond instead of react. And that usually comes with listening. If the observation and the listening are deep, then your action will be deep also.”

People Ifs World Art Body Action Ability Animal Practice Listening Ears Plant Your Body Observation Listeners Just Listen Animal World

Author:Rodney Yee

“Given the choice of apathy or someone liberating mink, burning down a research torture-laboratory, or killing a vivisectionist or other DIRECT murderer of animals, I will choose the aforesaid actions over apathy any day of the week.-”

Action Choices Given Animal Week Research Direct Killing Burning Torture Apathy Murderer Liberating Laboratory Days Of The Week Mink Burning Down

Author:Gary Yourofsky

“The animals possess a soul and men must love and feel solidarity with our smaller brethren. All animals are fruit of the creative action of the Holy Spirit and merit respect and they are as near to God as men are.”

Men Feels Soul Action Spirit Animal Creative Holy Fruit Merit Holy Spirit Solidarity Brethren

Author:Pope John Paul II