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"Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us."
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"My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it."

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

"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."

"The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans."
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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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