| “ Follow the path shown by Lord Mahavir & achieve success - Do unto others as you would like to be done by. Injury or violence done by your to any life in any form, Animal or human, is as harmful as it would be if caused to your own self. ” ~ Festivals and Days
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| “ Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or Animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way. ” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“ To those people who say, - My father is alive because of Animal experimentation, - I say - Yeah, well, good for you. This dog died so your father could live. - Sorry, but I am just not behind that kind of trade off. - ” ~ Bill Maher
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“ Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the Animal part of man. ” ~ Erich Fromm
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“ To be human is to be in the tense condition of a deathforeseeing, consciously libidinous Animal. No other earthly creature suffers such a capacity for thought, such a complexity of envisioned but frustrated possibilities, such a troubling ability to question the tribal and biological imperatives. . ” ~ John Updike
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“ [I]t is not metres, but a metremaking argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an Animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form. ” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“ Nature will be reported. All things are engaged in writing their history. The planet, the pebble, goes attended by its shadow. The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain; the river, its channel in the soil; the Animal, its bones in the stratum; the fern and leaf their modest epitaph in the coal. ” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“ When we awake it is the Animal, the plant, that thinks in us. Primitive thought without the least disguise. We see a terrible universe, because we see clearly. A little later, intelligence introduces its impeding contrivances. It brings the little toys which man invents in order to hide the void. It is then that we think we are seeing clearly. We attribute our uneasiness to the miasmas of the brain as it passes from dream to reality. ” ~ Jean Cocteau
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“ The human being is in the most literal sense a political Animal, not merely a gregarious Animal, but an Animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society. ” ~ Karl Marx
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“ [I]t is not metres, but a metremaking argument that makes a poem,â??a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an Animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form. ” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“ Answer me, you who believe that Animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this Animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all? ” ~ Voltaire
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“ Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal. ” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
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“ It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure Animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him. ” ~ Voltaire
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“ Experience declares that man is only Animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and the general prey of the rich on the poor. ” ~ Thomas Jefferson
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“ I have lived temperately, eating little Animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet. ” ~ Thomas Jefferson
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“ In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act. Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an Animal. ” ~ Thomas Jefferson
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“ The Creator would indeed have been a bungling artist had he intended man for a social Animal without planting in him social dispositions. ” ~ Thomas Jefferson
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“ What do you do when you see an endangered Animal that eats only endangered plants? ” ~ Steven Wright
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“ Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul? ” ~ Saint Augustine
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“ Beware the barrenness of a busy life. ” ~ Saint Augustine
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