"People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times."

Isaac Bashevis Singer, American Novelist

People, Animals, Justification, Logic

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"People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times."

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"Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution."

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"Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community."

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"The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people."

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"It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win."

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"Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body."

Mark Pryor, American Politician

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"People are essentially red meat. They are."

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"I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging."

Barbara Hershey, American Actress

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"The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people."

Ernst Toller, German Playwright

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"In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved."

Rupert Murdoch, American Publisher

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"My sexuality has never been a problem to me but I think it has been for other people."

Dusty Springfield, British Musician

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"We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children."

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"Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters."

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"The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it."

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"The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance."

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