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“Most impediments to scientific understanding are conceptual locks, not factual lacks. Most difficult to dislodge are those biases that escape our scrutiny because they seem so obviously, even ineluctably, just. We know ourselves best and tend to view other creatures as mirrors of our own constitution and social arrangements. ( Aristotle , and nearly two millennia of successors, designated the large bee that leads the swarm as a king.”

Source: Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

“Kings play at war unfairly with republics; they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.”

Littles War Play Earth Values Loses Kings Creatures Soldier Republic

Book:The Works of Walter Savage Landor

Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor

“It took a lot of water to down just that f-king bat's head, let me tell you. It's still stuck in my f-king throat, after all these years. People all over the world say, 'You're the guy who kills creatures? You still do it? You do it every night?' It happened f-king once, for Christ's sake.”

People World Years Stills Night Guy Christ Water Happened Kings Creatures Let Me Sake Stuck Throat Every Night Bats

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“One may live as a conqueror, a king, or a magistrate; but he must die a man. The bed of death brings every human being to his pure individuality, to the intense contemplation of that deepest and most solemn of all relations - the relations between the creature and his Creator.”

Men Humans May Dies Human Beings Kings Pure Bed Creatures Relation Individuality Creator Intense Contemplation Solemn Conqueror Magistrates

Book:THE WORKS OF DANIEL WEBSTER; VOLUME II

Source: THE WORKS OF DANIEL WEBSTER; VOLUME II

“The high-ceilinged rooms, the little balconies, alcoves, nooks and angles all suggest sanctuary, escape, creature comfort. The reader, the scholar, the browser, the borrower is king.”

Littles Rooms Reader Kings Comfort Creatures Scholar Angle Sanctuary Balconies Borrowers Browsers Creature Comforts

Author:David McCord

“My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was the touring pianist with Nat King Cole. My family was an explosive mixture of politics, religion and music - no wonder I turned out how I did.”

Political Father Wonder Kings Dad Creatures My Family Musical My Dad Mum Mixtures Touring Theatrical Pianist Explosives

Author:Grace Jones