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Animals Quotes
"Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us."
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"Respect and affection for animals, particularly those who share our homes, recognize no geographic borders."
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"When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand."
42
"It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals."
42
"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."
41
"The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before."
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"If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors."
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"In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults."
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"All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification."
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"To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so."
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"The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment."
40
"Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal."
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"The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery."
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"Before long it will be the animals who do the dieting so that the ultimate consumer does not have to."
39
"It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians."
39
"When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products?"
38
"You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be."
38
"For the animals, they came from the University in Uppsala and all different kinds of clinics here."
38
"The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much."
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"Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us."
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"I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals."
37
"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."
37
"I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients and put bandages on them."
37
"Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion."
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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."
36
"I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished."
36
"Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies."
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"A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart - better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?"
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