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"To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so."
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"Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid."
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"It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians."
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"Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies."
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"The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals."
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"When it comes to wilderness animals we have to make an effort to preserve what areas we can that they can be themselves in. Its come to a point though, clearly, where some species have to be cared for by humans if they are not going to disappear altogether."
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"I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up."
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"If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals' behinds, I would be a vet."
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"The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery."
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"Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans."
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"Now that I know how supermarket meat is made, I regard eating it as a somewhat risky proposition. I know how those animals live and what's on their hides when they go to slaughter, so I don't buy industrial meat."
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"There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself."
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"Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones."
Libraries
"He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery."
Flattery
"When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so."
Acquaintance
"God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs."
God
"To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so."
Animals
"It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories."
Wisdom
"He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals."
Love
"Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions."
God
"One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them."
Habit
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