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“Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea of what is a large and what a small state.... To the size of states there is a limit, as there is to other things, plants, animals, implements; for none of these retain their natural power when they are too large or too small, but they either wholly lose their nature, or are spoiled.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Ideas States Order Loses Natural Animal Ought Limits Plant Size No Idea Consumerism Spoiled Overconsumption

Book:The Essential Aristotle

Source: The Essential Aristotle

“An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct, it becomes rare. So you don't lose abundant animals. You always lose rare animals. Therefore, they're not perceived as a big loss.”

Bigs Loses Loss Animal

Author:Daniel Pauly

“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

“The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.”

Men Values Fighting Left Loses Animal Poor Rich Wall Rich Man Poor Man

Author:R. A. Salvatore

“I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals.”

Sometimes Character Interest Loses Animal Tree

Book:Conversations with Toni Morrison

Source: Conversations with Toni Morrison

“We lose in depth of expression when we go to inferior animals for comparisons with human beauty. Homer calls Juno ox-eyed; and the epithet suits well with the eyes of that goddess, because she may be supposed, with all her beauty, to want a certain humanity. Her large eyes look at you with a royal indifference.”

Source: Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs, from His Uncollected Prose Writings

“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

“Well lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than weve lost in the last 65 million years. If we dont find answers to these problems, were gonna be victims of this extinction event that were at fault for.”

Ifs Years Wells Problem Lasts Lost Loses Answers Animal Millions Events Victim Plant Faults Species Extinction Plants And Animals

Author:Paul Watson

“Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty he comes astep closer to the animal; with the sense of possessions of his thirties (the median line between laziness and greediness), still another step. In his sixtieth year of life he frequently loses his modesty as well, then the septuagenarian steps up to us as a completely unmasked beast: one need only look at the eyes and the teeth.”

“For a country without a past is nothing, a word That, hardly spoken, loses its meaning, A perishable wall destroyed by flame, An echo of animal emotions.”

Country Past Loses Animal Emotion Wall Destroyed Flames Echoes

Author:Czeslaw Milosz

“What distinguishes us humans from animals is our conscience. Once our conscience is gone we lose our humanness. Without conscience, humans can be far more dangerous than beasts. Beasts kill for food, humans kill for ideology. Beasts kill just enough to eat. Humans can kill endlessly.”

Humans Enough Loses Animal Gone Dangerous Conscience Ideology Beast Humanness

Author:Ali Sina

“We are animal. We are Earth. We are water. We are a community of human beings living on this planet together. And we forget that. We become disconnected, we lose our center point of gravity, that stillness that allows us to listen to life on a deeper level and to meet each other in a fully authentic and present way.”

Way Humans Earth Together Water Community Loses Human Beings Forget Animal Levels Planets Deeper Stillness Gravity Living On Disconnected

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“I was watching one of those animal shows on the Discovery Channel. There was a guy inventing a shark bite suit. And there's only one way to test it. All right Jimmy, you got that shark suit on, it looks good... They want you to jump into this pool of sharks, and you tell us if it hurts when they bite you. Well, all right, but hold my sign. I don't wanna lose it.”

Ifs Way Want Wells Looks Shows Guy Loses Hurt Animal Discovery Tests Suits One Way Bites Pool It Hurts Jimmy Sharks Inventing

Author:Bill Engvall

“In the midst of all the candy and commercialism, let's not lose sight of the true meaning of Halloween: tree worship and animal sacrifice.”

Loses Animal Sacrifice Tree Worship Sight Midst Halloween Candy True Meaning Commercialism

Author:Dana Gould