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Animals Quotes
"It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked."
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"The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am."
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"Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad."
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"Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction."
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"No one can give anyone else the gift of the idyll; only an animal can do so, because only animals were not expelled from Paradise. The love between dog and man is idyllic. It knows no conflicts, no hair-raising scenes; it knows no development."
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"Basically, the reason I'm vegan is because when I was about 16 or 17 years old, I began to understand that we don't need to contribute to the killing and exploitation of animals to feed our bodies correctly."
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"Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north."
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"Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet."
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"It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around."
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"If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals' behinds, I would be a vet."
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"The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder."
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"There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there."
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"The Allegator is the same, as the Crocodile, and differs only in Name."
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"Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are."
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"Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle."
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"Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper."
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"All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals."
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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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"Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid."
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"Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals."
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"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends."
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"Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight."
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"Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater."
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"I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees."
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"Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate."
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"Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water and moored their boat at the flowery margin of the island."
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"In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules."
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"I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie."
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"Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three."
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"The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants."
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"I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up."
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"Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy."
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"The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment."
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