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“The trade of chemist (fortified, in my case, by the experience of Auschwitz), teaches you to overcome, indeed to ignore, certain revulsions that are neither necessary or congenital: matter is matter, neither noble nor vile, infinitely transformable, and its proximate origin is of no importance whatsoever. Nitrogen is nitrogen, it passes miraculously from the air into plants, from these into animals, and from animals into us; when its function in our body is exhausted, we eliminate it, but it still remains nitrogen, aseptic, innocent.”

Stills Matter Body Certain Animal Teach Cases Air Overcoming Function Importance Remains Trade Plant Noble Innocent Exhausted Chemist Auschwitz Revulsion Nitrogen

Book:The periodic table

Source: The periodic table

“Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.”

Men Humans Pain Sound Animal Overcoming Triumph Courageous

Book:THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel

Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel

“I placed myself in amongst the animal kingdom so that I would be able to confront myself actually. It did not start out as the intention to serve and protect the lives of the innocent within the animal kingdom. I wanted to test myself, to see if I was able to overcome the dire situation that I was headed toward. By this of course I mention the fact that I was an alcoholic and drug addict before I left to live in the wild.”

Ifs Facts Would Be Able Wanted Courses Left Animal Situation Drug Protect Tests Overcoming Intention Kingdoms Innocent Addict Alcoholics Drug Addict Animal Kingdom

Author:Timothy Treadwell

“I eat not because I want to, not because I have to overcome anything, not to prove myself to anyone, but because it's there. I eat because that's what people do. And somehow when the food is put in front of you by an institution, when there's a large gray force behind it and you don't have to thank anyone for it, you have the animal instinct to make it disappear.”

People Want Force Animal Behinds Fronts Prove Overcoming Institutions Instinct Disappear Gray Prove Myself Animal Instinct

Author:Ned Vizzini

“If only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold of a new era in human moral and spiritual evolution - and realize, at last, our most unique quality: humanity.”

“Karate-do strives internally to train the mind to develop a clear conscience, enabling one to face the world honestly, while externally developing strength to the point where one may overcome even ferocious wild animals. Mind and technique become one in true karate.”

World Mind May Faces Animal Clear Conscience Overcoming Train Strive Technique Honestly Developing Strife Enabling Karate Wild Animal Clear Conscience

Author:Gichin Funakoshi

“The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.”

Men Way Humans Ideas Death Animal Destiny Activity Overcoming Finals Human Activity Human Animal Fatality

Book:The Denial of Death

Source: The Denial of Death

“He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal.”

Animal Higher Angel Overcoming Intelligence Intellect Lust

Book:The Rumi Collection

Source: The Rumi Collection