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Animals Quotes
"I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees."
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"I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other."
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"Respect and affection for animals, particularly those who share our homes, recognize no geographic borders."
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"It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals."
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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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"In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults."
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"Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal."
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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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"The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery."
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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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"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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"Before long it will be the animals who do the dieting so that the ultimate consumer does not have to."
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"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."
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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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"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 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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"For the animals, they came from the University in Uppsala and all different kinds of clinics here."
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"The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment."
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"Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants."
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"The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much."
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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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"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."
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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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"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends."
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"Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion."
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"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?"
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"You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be."
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"Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past - they never do; they're too busy."
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"The tabloids are like animals, with their own behavioural patterns. There's no point in complaining about them, any more than complaining that lions might eat you."
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"The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves."
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"It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians."
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