"The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own."

Animals, Children, Faces

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"The dog is a gentleman, I hope to go to his heaven not man's."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"We are like other animals; we live and die as they do. If there is any afterlife, I believe we are in together."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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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."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

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"Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?"

Bebe Neuwirth, American Actress

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"Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal."

Charles Darwin, English Scientist

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"Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly."

Diogenes, Greek Philosopher

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"Nobody ever kicked a dog wagging its tail."

Chris Murray, Irish Author

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"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."

Love

"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do."

Want

"Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods."

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"If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away."

Time

"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

Age

"In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them."

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"Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality."

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"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."

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"Thousands have lived without love, not one without water."

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"Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another."

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