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Animals Quotes
"One thing I think kids need to do is more chores, and take care of their own rooms. Responsibilities are really important to start them with. If they have animals, they have to feed them and care for them. That's the only way I think I could do it."
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"The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment."
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"The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans."
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"Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans."
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"The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves."
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"They are the most fascinating, intelligent, resourceful, adaptable animals I have ever seen. Grizzlies are a real symbol of true wildness."
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"Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race."
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"I just think you would never kill and cut up a human to wear so why do it to animals? I just think it's horrible, I would never wear fur, although I guess if it was a really vintage piece you might just get away with it."
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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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"For the animals, they came from the University in Uppsala and all different kinds of clinics here."
10
"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."
10
"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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"I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do."
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"Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion."
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"Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection."
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"In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults."
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"As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other."
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"The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation."
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"If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?"
9
"Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities."
9
"I guess growing up I realized that there is really this huge epidemic in a city like Los Angeles, and many other cities, where they put down thousands upon thousands of animals every day."
9
"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?"
9
"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."
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"Animals mean everything to me. We have to be their voice and protectors."
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"The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat."
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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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"I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals."
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"I accredit animals for keeping me going when times were bad."
8
"Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants."
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"The way animals were and are abused appalls me to this very day."
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"When it comes to wilderness animals we have to make an effort to preserve what areas we can that they can be themselves in. Its come to a point though, clearly, where some species have to be cared for by humans if they are not going to disappear altogether."
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"Turns out, I couldn't catch them - or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out."
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