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“Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one. You can argue with a theologian or a politician, but doctors are sacrosanct. They know; you do not. Science has its mystique much more powerful than any religion active today.”

Knows Ideas Today Science Political Animal Powerful Politician Doctors Active Arguing Appeals Animal Rights Theologian Theological Mystique Vivisection

Book:Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings

Source: Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings

“We're smart enough to know we need to live in groups to survive, but we're still animals and we needs lots of room. In the case of the male of the species we also probably need that-guy-over-there's space. And his wife and cow, too.”

Knows Men Needs Stills Enough Guy Space Animal Rooms Cases Wife Groups Smart Species Males Cows That Guy

Author:Julia Phillips

“I hate having to do small talk. I'd rather talk about deep subjects. I'd rather talk about meditation, or the world, or the trees or animals, than small, inane, you know, banter.”

Knows World Hate Animal Meditation Tree Subjects I Hate Banter Small Talk

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“I love animals. With animals you never know what you're getting. Everybody says don't mess with animals and little kids in movies but those are the funniest things because you can't be in control. I like to lose control as a director.”

Knows Littles Kids Loses Animal Directors Mess Little Kid Animal Love

Author:David Gordon Green

“Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go, and we come and go. Thats it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can.”

Knows Should Dies Stuff Animal Tree Flower Bird Comes And Goes

Author:Joanna Lumley

“Well, I had an immense respect for Cirque du Soleil when I first say them in the '80s on a television show and just thought, you know, this group is really reinventing the circus, as you know. Because there wasn't three rings. There were no animals.”

Knows Firsts Wells Shows Three Animal Groups Television Rings Immense 80s Circus Television Shows Reinventing Cirque Du Soleil

Author:Criss Angel

“You don't know what mental telepathy exists from the human to the animal.”

Knows Humans Animal Telepathy

Author:Tippi Hedren

“I stopped eating beef in high school, and in college I stopped eating poultry. I am not a huge fan of factory farming and what we're doing to animals. I try to eat as clean as possible because I want to know what I'm putting into my body.”

Knows Want Trying Body School Animal Fans College Huge Eating High School Clean Factories Farming Beef Factory Farming Poultry

Author:Susanna Thompson

“Do you not believe that animals know grief and fear and pain? The world of men is not an easy one for them.”

Knows Men World Believe Pain Easy Animal Grief

Book:The Book of Three: The Chronicles of Prydain

Source: The Book of Three: The Chronicles of Prydain

“Everywhere I go I meet girls and boys who want to be astronauts and explore space, or they love the ocean and want to be oceanographers, or they love animals and want to be zoologists, or they love designing things and want to be engineers. I want to see those same stars in their eyes in 10 years and know they are on their way!”

Knows Way Want Years Eye Girl Stars Space Animal Boys Design Ocean Engineers Astronaut Animal Love Boy And Girl Zoologist

Author:Sally Ride

“Also, in the category of 'obvious but still shocking,' an animal called a 'killer whale' killed someone who was trying to play with it. Now, no one knows exactly what enraged the whale, but earlier in the week, it had been thrown off a flight by Southwest Airlines.”

Knows Trying Stills Play Animal Week Obvious Flight Thrown Categories Killers Shocking Airline Whales Southwest Airlines Killer Whales

Author:Bill Maher

“The first day I walked into prison, and he slammed that door, I knew the magnitude of the decision that I made, and the poor judgment, and what I allowed to happen to the animals. And, you know, its no way of explaining the hurt and the guilt that I felt. And that was the reason I cried so many nights.”

Knows Way Firsts Made Reason Happens Night Felt Hurt Decision Animal Poor Doors Judgment Prison Guilt Cried Explaining Magnitude

Author:Michael Vick

“Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.”

Knows Helping Funny Animal Posts Fence Black History Alex Turtles Fence Post

Author:Alex Haley

“Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy to interest them in taking care of plants and especially of animals. Nothing awakens foresight in a small child such as this. When he knows that animals have need of him, that little plants will dry up if he does not water them, he binds together with a new thread of love today's passing moments with those of the morrow.”

“If a potato can produce vitamin C, why can't we? Within the animal kingdom only humans and guinea pigs are unable to synthesize vitamin C in their own bodies. Why us and guinea pigs? No point asking. Nobody knows.”

Ifs Knows Humans Body Animal Produce Asking Kingdoms Pigs Potatoes No Point Nobody Knows Vitamins Guinea Animal Kingdom Guinea Pigs

Author:Bill Bryson

“The way we eat has changed more in the last 50 years than in the previous 10,000…. Now our food is coming from enormous assembly lines where the animals and the workers are being abused, and the food has become much more dangerous in ways that are deliberately hidden from us. This isn’t just about what we’re eating. It’s about what we’re allowed to say. What we’re allowed to know.”

Knows Way Years Lasts Lines Animal Dangerous Changed Eating Workers Enormous Assembly Assembly Line

Author:Eric Schlosser

“As long as you have markets, you'll have excesses. People went crazy with tulip bulbs. They went crazy with the South Sea Bubble, they went crazy internet stocks, they went crazy with the uranium stocks back when I was first getting started. I mean, you know, you're not going to change the human animal. And the human animal really doesn't get a lot smarter.”

People Knows Firsts Humans Mean Long Animal Sea Crazy Internet South Excess Bubbles Smarter Back When Bulbs Human Animal Uranium Getting Started

Author:Howard Warren Buffett

“Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious.”

Thinking Knows World Animal Groups Bird Kingdoms Mysterious Animal Kingdom

Author:David Attenborough

“What joy when the insouciant armadillo glances at us and doesn't quicken his trotting across the track into the palm brush. What is this joy? That no animal falters, but knows what it must do?”

Knows Joy Animal Instinct Track Brushes Glances Palms Trotting Armadillos

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Man seems to be an animal whose capacity for lies is only equalled by his credulity; it does no good to let battalions of cats outof bags, to produce whole harems of naked facts, people eat the same three meals daily deception, and are always ready to turn with fury upon the purveyors of bagless cats and facts undraped. Probably their instinct is wise. Who knows?”

Source: The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos

“Man is a rational animal—so at least I have been told. … Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man to proclaim explicitly that man is a rational animal. His reason for this view was … that some people can do sums. … It is in virtue of the intellect that man is a rational animal. The intellect is shown in various ways, but most emphatically by mastery of arithmetic. The Greek system of numerals was very bad, so that the multiplication table was quite difficult, and complicated calculations could only be made by very clever people.”

“No wonder circus animals do what they do: They tortured them. And you know the only ones they can't control? It's the chimpanzees. You can't control them. That's why you never see a gorilla in a movie, because the gorilla may decide there'll be no filming.”

Knows May Animal Wonder Circus Chimpanzees Gorillas

Author:Paul Mooney

“Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.”

Knows Humans Kind Death Suffering Easy Loss Animal Deals Grief Healing Attitude Sorrow Singers Life And Death Enabling Pet Loss Dealing With Death

Author:Emmylou Harris

“Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.”

Knows World Animal

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend in spiritualcreation, and not in augmenting animal existence. Nor is the man enriched, in repeating the old experiments of animal sensation; nor unless through new powers and ascending pleasures he knows himself by the actual experience of higher good to be already on the way to the highest.”

Knows Men Way May Pleasure Animal Money Existence He Man Higher Highest Experiments Planes Sensations Avarice Thrift Ascending

Book:The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

“If the World War [I] demonstrated anything it was that government ownership is fraught with the gravest dangers and usually leads to disaster. Take Britain. The two problems which have caused the greatest trouble since the war ended have been transportation and coal. The government seized both industries when the war broke out. It got them into such a hopeless mess that it does not know how to turn [In] coal; the government now realizes, it took hold of the tail of a wild animal and is afraid to let go.”

“I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.”

Knows Said Sometimes Might Animal Taken Ordinary Enormous Giants Jest

Book:Leibniz: Philosophical Essays

Source: Leibniz: Philosophical Essays

“All the different classes of beings which taken together make up the universe are, in the ideas of God who knows distinctly their essential gradations, only so many ordinates of a single curve so closely united that it would be impossible to place others between any two of them, since that would imply disorder and imperfection. Thus men are linked with the animals, these with the plants and these with the fossils which in turn merge with those bodies which our senses and our imagination represent to us as absolutely inanimate.”

Knows Men Two Ideas Different Body Would Be Together Turns Universe Imagination Animal United Class Taken Impossible Essentials Plant Senses Disorder Imperfection Linked Curves Fossils

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that's the bunk. It's little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.”

Knows Littles Stuff Animal Tiny Hats Monkeys Elephants Turkeys Straws Midget Bunk Keyholes Straw Hats

Author:Billy Wilder

“I was watching the Animal Planet. Did you know that the male seahorse has the baby? Why don't they just call that one the female?”

Knows Humor Funny Animal Planets Baby Female Males Did You Know

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“I know that I'm an animal that displays bilateral symmetry. I understand that one side should be the mirror of the other, and that human perceptions of beauty are intimately associated with symmetry. For example, I am very handsome.”

Knows Should Humans Sides Animal Example Perception Mirrors Display Handsome Symmetry Perception Of Beauty

Author:Mark Rippetoe

“The history of the universe and nature is being told to us by the stars, by the Earth, by the uprising and elevation of the mountains, by the animals, the woods and jungles, and by the rivers. Our task is to know how to listen and interpret the messages that are sent to us. The original peoples knew how to read every movement of the clouds, the meaning of the winds, and they knew when violent downpours were coming... We have forgotten all that.”

Knows Earth Universe Stars Animal Know How Movement Wind Mountain Messages Rivers Tasks Originals Environmental Forgotten Clouds Woods Violent Jungle Stewardship Uprising Elevation

Author:Leonardo Boff

“I've had a love of animals from birth. I love getting to know other species. We should all be aware that there is not one thing we can give a wild animal in captivity that they need.”

Knows Needs Giving Should Animal One Thing Birth Species Wild Animal Captivity

Author:Tippi Hedren

“People are only animals, but special animals. Every animal has fought and killed to survive, even before the dinosaurs. We're the only ones that do it for fun. That's why I don't know about Darwinism. Supposedly evolution and natural selection are all about survival, but we haven't gotten smarter over the years, only more dangerous.”

People Knows Years Fun Natural Animal Special Dangerous Havens Evolution Survival Smarter Selection Dinosaurs Natural Selection Darwinism

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Human cruelty knows no limits and that one needs immense courage and a will of iron to help others understand that animals are made of flesh and blood like us, that they suffer the same pains as us, that they deserve the same respect as us and that their continuous slaughter should not be part of human entertainment.”

Knows Needs Should Humans Made Helping Pain Suffering Animal Blood Limits Deserve Entertainment Flesh Helping Others Cruelty Iron Immense Slaughter Flesh And Blood Human Cruelty

Author:Brigitte Bardot

“I went to a heavy metal concert. The singer yelled out, "How many of you people feel like human beings tonight?" And then he said, "How many of you feel like animals?" The thing is, everyone cheered after the animals part, but I cheered after the human beings part because I did not know there was a second part to the question.”

People Knows Feels Humans Said Humor Funny Human Beings Animal Heavy Singers Tonight Concerts Metals Heavy Metal

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“Animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do.We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do. [. . .] The animals need only be and do.We're yoked, and they're free. So to be with an animal is to know a little freedom.”

Knows Needs May Littles Evil Animal Good And Evil

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“I don't know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside.”

Ifs Knows Should Art Animal Streets Fats Sleepy Wild And Free Street Art

Author:Banksy

“You know the animal that kills the most people in the world? The Hepatitis Bee.”

People Knows World Humor Funny Animal Bees Hepatitis

Author:Milton Jones

“I was watching Animal Planet. Did you know that the male seahorse has the baby? And I was thinking, "Why don't they just call that the female seahorse?" You know it's just some stubborn scientist. "Yeah, that one there's the male seahorse." And his assistant's like, "Uh, Bill, that one's having a baby." ... "The male has the baby. You're fired."”

Thinking Knows Funny Animal Comedy Planets Baby Female Scientist Yeah Bills Males Stubborn Assistants Did You Know Having A Baby

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“Anyone who's lived with companion cats or dogs knows that they are unique individuals with their own personalities. I think animals' secret to getting along is that they are not burdened by an ego.”

Thinking Knows Individual Animal Secret Dog Personality Ego Unique Cat Companion Getting Along Unique Individuals

Author:Jonathan Balcombe

“All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it - and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow.”

Knows Men Life Is Humanity Enjoy Animal Circumstances Principal

Author:Samuel Butler

“There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.”

People Knows Two Evil Animal Two Things Pet Envied

Author:Voltaire

“For all we know that English people are/ Fed upon beef - I won't say much of beer/ Because 'tis liquor only, and being far/ From this my subject, has no business here;/ We know too, they are very fond of war,/ A pleasure - like all pleasures - rather dear;/ So were the Cretans - from which I infer/ That beef and battle both were owing her”

People Knows War Pleasure Animal Subjects Battle Dear Beer Feds Animal Rights Liquor Beef Fed Up Owing

Book:Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose

Source: Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose

“I want to know how these very people who are against war because of loss of life can possibly be the same people who are for abortion? They are the same people who are for animal rights, but they are not for the rights of the unborn.”

People Knows Want War Loss Animal Know How Rights Abortion Animal Rights Unborn Against War

Author:Jim Gibbons

“We're just animals, creatures smart enough and unlucky enough to have figured out we're alive, and we're going to die without ever knowing any purpose. We can pretend all we want and we can wish all we want, but that basic existential fact remainswe can't know.”

Knows Want Enough Facts Purpose Dies Wish Animal Knowing Alive Creatures Smart Remains Existential Unlucky

Book:The Tenth Insight: A Pocket Guide (Storycuts)

Source: The Tenth Insight: A Pocket Guide (Storycuts)

“Well the thing is, once you have a snow leopard it's difficult to go back. Everything is going to be slightly disappointing. It's very telling what your choice would be. Because that's probably how you see yourself. We used to play that game as kids and you'd say if you were animal what would you be and it'd usually be the opposite of what it should be. But all animals have got their virtues. You know, cockroaches got virtues.”

Ifs Knows Should Wells Play Would Be Kids Used Choices Games Difficult Animal Virtue Opposites Snow Disappointing Cockroaches Leopards Snow Leopards

Author:Daniel Craig

“I think that we are supernatural. We are unique. We're the only animals in the universe that we know of that actually have self-consciousness, a sense of time and our own mortality.”

Thinking Knows Self Universe Animal Consciousness Unique Mortality Self Consciousness

Author:Anne Rice

“The human animal is a fascinating beast. Watching people and trying to learn how and why they do things, and to engage in the somewhat futile attempt to explain them...it's my reason for living I guess...to ask 'why?'. I don't know what else to do with myself. In some strange way it's probably an attempt to understand myself and my own relationship to the world.”

People Knows World Way Trying Humans Reason Asks My Own Animal Strange Beast Fascinating Human Animal

Author:Andrew Neel

“We may be losing the ability to understand animals who are not pets or horses. We have less contact with them. We don't (most of us) tend to know even cows and pigs, let alone bears or wolverines or red tailed hawks.”

Knows May Ability Animal Bears Losing Red Horse Contact Pet Cows Pigs Hawks

Author:Marge Piercy

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