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- I wanted to talk to the animals like Dr. Doolittle.
- Jane Goodall (1934 - )
- The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the more ethical concerns are raised regarding their use in the service of man -- whether this be in entertainment, as "pets," for food, in research laboratories, or any of the other uses to which we subject them.
- Jane Goodall (1934 - )
- Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
- Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834), The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1797
- To the last, I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.
- Herman Melville (1819 - 1891), Moby Dick, 1851
- No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
- Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965)
- The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
- Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965)
- He reflected deeply, until this feeling completely overwhelmed him and he reached a point where he recognized causes; for to recognize causes, it seemed to him, is to think, and through thought along feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and being to mature.
- Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), Siddhartha (1951), Chapter: Awakening
- Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.
- Anthony Burgess (1917 - 1993)
- Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend, turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phrase of selfish, worldly society religion? Is that religion which is scrupulous, less generous, less just, less considerate for man, than even my own ungodly, worldly, blinded nature? No! When I look for religion, I must look for something above me, and not something beneath.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896), Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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