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- It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson
- How, given the canine teeth and close-set eyes that declare the human animal to be a predator, had we come up with the notion that oat bran is more natural to eat than chicken?
- Valerie Martin, The Great Divorce
- There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.
- Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
- We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labor.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
- If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
- Michael Harrington, The Other America, 1962
- There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- Our notion of symmetry is derived from the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breath only, not vertically nor in depth.
- Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
- It is vain to say human beings might be satisfied with tranquillity; they must have action, and they will make it if they can not find it.
- Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)
- The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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