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“Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders. . . . It is a species of poison that causes madness. It does not make a man die, but it degrades him into a brute. Men may preserve their health and vigor without wine; with wine they run the risk of ruining their health and losing their morals.”

Men May Doe Running Dies Evil Causes Community Moral Risk Source Disease Losing Labor Madness Wine Species Preserves Poison Disorder Idleness Quarrels Brutes Vigor Degrade Aversion

Author:Francois Fenelon

“Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species.”

Art Real Running Half Art Is Rivers Stones Species Feminist Gender Tiny Cracks One Half Flawless Creeks Subjugation Feminist Art

Author:Andrea Dworkin

“The core of ethics runs deep in our species and is common to human beings everywhere. It survives the most appalling hardships and the most ruthless attempts to deprive human beings of their humanity. Nevertheless, some people resist the idea that his core has a biological basis which we have inherited from our pre-human ancestors.”

People Humans Ideas Running Humanity Human Beings Common Ethics Bases Species Core Hardship Ancestor Nevertheless Ruthless

Book:The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress

Source: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress

“[Footnote:] The female of any species is generally regarded as a relatively anabolic organism, more passive than the male, who is relatively katabolic and active. The fact remains that one frequently runs across a rather katabolic female.”

Facts Running Female Remains Species Males Active Passive Organisms Footnotes

Book:The Great Bustard and Other People: Containing: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct

Source: The Great Bustard and Other People: Containing: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct

“The [film] business is run by men, and they're basically interested in their own species, and they're not so interested in women belonging to the human race.”

Men Humans Running Film Race Species Human Race Movie Belonging

Author:Bette Midler

“Of the many species that have existed on earth - estimates run as high as fifty billion - more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the light of this, it is sometimes joked that all of life today amounts to little more than a rounding error.”

Littles Sometimes Light Running Today Earth Environment Amount Survival Errors Species Billions Nine Fifty Cents Ninety Ninety Nine

Author:Elizabeth Kolbert