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“What could not be denied was that in vast segments of the animal world natural selection of the most qualified individuals took place not by competition for females but by competition for space.”

World Individual Natural Space Animal Evolution Female Competition Denied Selection Qualified Natural Selection Animal World

Book:AFRICAN GENISIS

Source: AFRICAN GENISIS

“It's disheartening that animal people criticize societies that enlist the help of actors or organize creative acts like 'I'd rather go naked than wear fur,' to increase public awareness to our cause. These are great/courageous ideas which time has come! Liberation of animals is REVOLUTION - not elegant performance/ intellectual competition. We should do most anything to advance the animal rights cause. All the bickering may make the one step forward... TWO STEPS BACKWARD???”

“The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body, animal, using ‘filiform protrusions through which it sucks the vital juices of its host.’ Parasite or creature in mutation on the shore, torrid / delirium: mordant mortality, systematic competition the narrator against the I, leaking gas, a lapse of memory against a promise, an inset in a book. A muscular, involuntary bulging in the breast, circling all its inner surface: mesoblast: visceral.”

Source: The Blue Books: A Book, Turn of a Pang, French Kiss, Or, A Pang's Progress

“I discovered that our clan included loads of cousins and uncles and aunts and animals of every shape. I was taught that chaos and competition were family values. And I learned that we all loved the sea. Somehow, the sea was about us-our past, our exuberance, our frailty, our longing.”

Past Values Animal Sea Taught Shapes Longing Competition Chaos Load Our Past Uncles Cousin Aunt Frailty Family Values Clans Exuberance

Author:Timothy Shriver

“It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn't even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards.”

Men Enough Sports Animal Race Beats Fairs Horse Competition Athlete Height Yards Competing Race Horses

Book:Jesse, a spiritual autobiography

Source: Jesse, a spiritual autobiography