"The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals."

Animals, Information

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"The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals."

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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."

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"Nobody ever kicked a dog wagging its tail."

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"Kind old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always go to a good man, they say."

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"Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture."

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"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content."

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"Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

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"I'm very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals."

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"I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them."

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"Like all pure creatures, cats are practical."

William S. Burroughs, American Writer

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