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- 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
- 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
- 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
- One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
- It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
- 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
- Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
- Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965)
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