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“How many hearts with warm, red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth and eyes are shining? A multitude of animal people, intimately related to us, but of whose lives we know almost nothing, are as busy about their own affairs as we are about ours.”

People Knows Heart Eye Animal Blood Adventure Red Shining Busy Affair Woods Warm Teeth Related Multitudes

Book:John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations

Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations

“I am not a romantic. I am a domestic animal. I do not sigh and yearn for extravagant displays of passion, for the grand affair, the world well lost for love. I know all that, and know that it leaves you lonely. No, what I crave is the simplicity of routine. An evening walk, arm in arm, in fine weather. A game of cards. Time for idle talk. Preparing a meal together.”

“When the Jew says "mankind" he is talking about himself. It is written in the Talmud, that only Jews were human beings, gentiles on the other hand were animals created to serve the chosen people. If looking back and comparing the corresponding articles in the "democratic" and "neutral" countries, one is astonished at the systematic nature of the propaganda whose final goal was the creation of a state of affairs in which a war was inevitable.”

“The vast results obtained by Science are won by no mystical faculties, by no mental processes other than those which are practicedby every one of us, in the humblest and meanest affairs of life. A detective policeman discovers a burglar from the marks made by his shoe, by a mental process identical with that by which Cuvier restored the extinct animals of Montmartre from fragments of their bones.”

Made Reason Process Animal Results Mark Shoes Affair Bones Faculty Mystical Fragments Identical Policemen Detectives Scientific Method Burglars Extinct Animals

Author:Thomas Huxley

“Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.”

Love Passion Animal Affair Selfish Strain Indulgence Snaps

Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“To divine the course of world events, you'd do as well to probe the entrails of dead animals. Better still, ask your hairstylist. She will be at least as insightful and probably more entertaining a prophet than anyone you can read in Foreign Affairs or the op-ed page of the Washington Post.”

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Author:Andrew Bacevich

“The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs.”

Men Matter Moving Animal Military Weight Importance Affair Proportion Velocity

Book:On The Economy Of Machinery And Manufactures

Source: On The Economy Of Machinery And Manufactures