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- Here's what I've learned about dogs: They're a lot like pretty girls. Having one or two around makes everything more fun, but when you get a whole bunch together, it turns into one big power struggle.
- Scott Westerfeld, The Last Days, 2006
- I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled.
- Scott Westerfeld, The Last Days, 2006
- Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my understanding of human behavior, of our place in nature.
- 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 - )
- Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who believe such efforts are misplaced in a world of suffering humanity.
- Jane Goodall (1934 - )
- If you look through all the different cultures. Right from the earliest, earliest days with the animistic religions, we have sought to have some kind of explanation for our life, for our being, that is outside of our humanity.
- Jane Goodall (1934 - )
- We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.
- Laura Preble, The Queen Geek Social Club, 2006
- If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?
- Laura Preble, The Queen Geek Social Club, 2006
- High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to provide the laugh track.
- Scott Westerfeld, Midnighters: Blue Noon, 2005
- It is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the criminal, the crippled, the dying, perhaps of the dead as well. These worlds exist alongside this world and resemble it, but are not in it.
- Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted, 1993
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