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“Humans call animals 'dumb'... after they robbed their entire own precious world. They are intelligent beings in their own right, and thoroughly self-sufficient... if not molested by humans. Yet, after millennia of slavery by selfish/callous humans they're made to look dumb! The 'superior species' in their situations would, too, appear 'dumb'.”

Ifs World Humans Looks Made Self Animal Situation Intelligent Slavery Species Selfish Superiors Dumb Sufficient Animal Rights Self Sufficient Callous

Author:Adela Popescu

“We were not made to eternally weep.”

Author:Countee Cullen

“Work made me crazy. I was tough to get along with.”

Made Crazy Tough

Author:Sam Simon

“You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.”

Want Feels Made Done Together Effort Records Stuck Dope Get Together

Author:Yelawolf

“I think, honestly, that a lot of people think I'm sad and dark all the time, because of the music I have made. But there's a huge part of my personality that's really energetic, outgoing and goofy.”

People Thinking Made Dark Huge Personality Honestly Energetic Goofy Outgoing I'm Sad

Author:Skylar Grey

“Art is Nature made by Man, To Man the interpreter of God.”

Men Art Made Art Is Interpreter

Author:Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

“We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew.”

Made Beautiful Joy Enjoy Sea Rose Sunset Dew Beautiful Sunset

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.”

Made Rolling Drunkenness Drunkards

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.”

Ifs Wells Made Seems Written Ordinary Originals Arrangements

Author:Horace

“Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,--the ties that have made others dependent on us,--and would cut them in two.”

Should Made Two Sometimes Feelings Seems Life Is Difficult Cutting Temptation Former Ties Dependent Strongest Former Life

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“The violets whisper from the shade Which their own leaves have made: Men scent our fragrance on the air, Yet take no heed Of humble lessons we would read.”

Men Made Air Lessons Humble Shade Scent Violet Fragrance Heed

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)

“I remember that at one time I always made a drawing before going to bed!! - Of myself I mean - though I finally destroyed most of them.”

Mean Made Remember Bed Drawing Destroyed One Time Portraiture

Book:Whistler: The Graphic Work: Amsterdam, Liverpool, London, Venice: An Exhibition Organised by Thos. Agnew & Sons, London, the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, and the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, in Association with the Arts Council of Great Britain, 1976

Source: Whistler: The Graphic Work: Amsterdam, Liverpool, London, Venice: An Exhibition Organised by Thos. Agnew & Sons, London, the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, and the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, in Association with the Arts Council of Great Britain, 1976

“Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once learned that belief was sort of an impression made on our mind, and that the softer it is the less resistant t.”

Mind Made Reason Seems Belief Ignorance Simplicity Conviction Impression Attributes Facility

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.”

Believe Wells Mean Persons Made Christian Belief Understanding Christianity Obedience Reverence Good Christian Inquisitive

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“The fragrance of the heart is made up of the qualities and virtues of our spirit. Most of us have learned how to keep our heart closed in a world that would trample all over us if we let it. Being open hearted today seems to require tremendous courage.”

Ifs World Heart Made Seems Today Spirit Quality Virtue Fragrance Hearted Open Heart

Author:Rajneesh

“Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.”

Persons Made Loss Gains

Author:Publilius Syrus

“The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.”

Made Universe Earnest Solemn Jest

Book:PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

“Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.”

Made Individual Taken Progress Gains Granted Taken For Granted

Author:Aldous Huxley

“A diamond, which is the hardest of stones, not yielding unto steel, emery or any other thing, is yet made soft by the blood of a goat.”

Made Blood Stones Hardest Diamond Steel Goats

Author:Thomas Browne

“What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press him further, you have the choice of two things - either to lose your loan or lose your friend.”

Ifs May Made Two Choices Asks Lost Loses Loss Enemy Kindness Presses Two Things Loan

Author:Plautus

“Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?.”

Knows Should Made Courage Taken Birth Worship Ill Wit Comparison

Book:The history of Don Quixote de la Mancha

Source: The history of Don Quixote de la Mancha

“We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We ought to break our days and our marches into two.”

Made Two Play Sleep Break Morning Ought Eight Clock March Midnight

Book:My Early Life: 1874-1904

Source: My Early Life: 1874-1904

“Even knaves may be made good for something.”

May Made Knaves Knavery

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is mastered, will be startled to see the way he has made at the end of a twelvemonth.”

Men Way Years Made Ends Hours Study One Thing He Man Habit One Hour

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living.”

Made Clear Distinction Making A Living

Author:Robert Fulghum

“What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of the thought. Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.”

World Has Beens Made Done Effort Masters Genius Cost Bird Painful Spontaneous Nests

Book:Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters

Source: Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters

“Marriages are said to be made in Heaven, which may be why they don't work here on Earth.”

May Made Said Earth Heaven Marriage

Author:Thomas Szasz

“The founder of every creed from Jesus Christ to Karl Marx, would be appalled to return to earth and see what has been made of that creed, not by its enemies, but by its most devoted adherents.”

Has Beens Made Would Be Earth Jesus Christ Enemy Return Authority Jesus Christ Creeds Devoted Founders

Book:Best of Sydney J. Harris

Source: Best of Sydney J. Harris

“A garden is half made when it is well planned.”

Wells Made Half Garden

Author:Liberty Hyde Bailey

“Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than an oak or a pine.”

Made Truth Is Brave Simplicity Ridiculous Satire Oaks

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

“I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.”

Humans Made Opinion Personality Red Academic Traits Vague

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh And sees fast-by a butcher with an axe, But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter?”

Made Suspects Bleeding Slaughter Butchers

Book:The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare

Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare

“I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool.”

May Made Fool Oath Oysters

Book:The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators

Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators

“A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness and meaningless of an individual existence. It cures the poignantly frustrated not by conferring upon them an absolute truth or by remedying the difficulties and abuses which made their lives miserable, but by freeing them from their ineffectual selves and it does this by enfolding and absorbing them into a closely knit and exultant corporate whole.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in laughter hints at its savage ancestry. Animals have no malice, hence also no laughter. They never savor the sudden glory of Schadenfreude. It was its infectious quality that made of laughter a medium of mutuality.”

Made Animal Quality Glory Laughter Teeth Mediums Misfortunes Savages Malice Hints Ancestry Glee Misfortunes Of Others Schadenfreude

Author:Eric Hoffer

“Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable.”

Men Made Spiritual Life Is Environment Society Unpredictable Predictable Inner Life Stagnation

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind, than as one of the species, by which means I have made myself a speculative statesman, soldier, merchant, and artisan, without ever meddling with any practical part of life.”

World Mean Made Mankind Species Soldier Practicals Spectators Statesmen Parts Of Life Merchants Meddling Artisans

Author:Joseph Addison

“REPARATION, n. Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satisfaction felt in committing it.”

Made Felt Satisfaction Reparations

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“In most states you can get a driver's license when you're sixteen years old, which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane.”

Years Made States Seems Family Insane Drivers License Sixteen Sixteen Year Olds

Author:Phyllis Diller

“Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand”

Men Made Sand Appetite Crops

Book:Following the Equator:

Source: Following the Equator:

“I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.”

Made Prejudice Bundles

Book:The Essays of Elia

Source: The Essays of Elia

“The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there: Then looking up and round the prospect wide, When did Praxiteles see me thus? she cried.”

Made Rounds Wide Queens Tides Cried Sculpture

Author:Plato

“The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.”

Made Character Lasts Common Numbers Hundred Lists Common Sense Attributes Last Time New Yorkers Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Hitchhikers Guide

Book:Mostly Harmless

Source: Mostly Harmless

“Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into something even more incomprehensible. And then there are those who say that this has already happened.”

Made Universe Happened

Author:Douglas Adams

“I don't think one can accurately measure the historical effectiveness of a poem; but one does know, of course, that books influence individuals; and individuals, although they are part of large economic and social processes, influence history. Every mass is after all made up of millions of individuals.”

Thinking Knows Doe Made Book Courses Individual Social Process Millions Influence Economic Mass Historical Effectiveness

Book:Light Up the Cave

Source: Light Up the Cave

“Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure Their blossoms from their roots, accessible Alone to heavenly dews that drop not fewer; Growing straight out of man's reach, on the hill. God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.”

Men May Made Stills Poor Rich Our Lives Growing Roots Hills Heavenly Fewer Dew Lilies

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“The image is made to order, tailored to us. An ideal, on the hand, has a claim on us. It does not serve us, we serve it. If we have trouble striding toward it, we assume the matter is with us, and not the ideal.”

Ifs Doe Made Matter Hands Order Trouble Ideals Claims Assuming Tailored

Author:Daniel J. Boorstin

“Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.”

Made Quiet Calm Forgotten Storm Vow

Author:Thomas Fuller

“Tools were made and born were hands, Every farmer understands.”

Made Hands Born Tools Farmers

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail.”

Firsts Made Humanity Simple Interesting Mankind Inspired Details Forests Glances Statues Examination Lively Cathedrals

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson