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"Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us."
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"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals."

"If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much."

"Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers."

"The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation."

"If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?"
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"God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course."

"Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war."

"It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man."

"Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation."

"When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone."
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