- Ethic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Animal Quotes
Instinct, nature, and the animals among us.
This page draws a line between animal instinct and moral courage, arguing that physical bravery comes naturally while true courage runs deeper. If you're browsing for younger audiences, Jokes covers lighter ground on the same subject.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Best, I'd advise, to give up all animal products obtained by cruel methods. There are some fine companies nowadays offering leather substitutes.
- Sympathy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is that at the White House and in Congress, you are as likely to find sympathy for animal issues among Republicans as among Democrats.
- English Teacher
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- Nov 07, 2020
My high school English teacher in junior year, Dr. Robert Parsons, assigned us some Poe stories, including 'The Black Cat' and 'The Purloined Letter.' Being an animal person, I had trouble with 'The Black Cat!' I got hooked instead by 'The Purloined Letter,' a Poe story with detective C. Auguste Dupin.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not, and have never been, a supporter of cockfighting or any other forms of animal cruelty.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is about animality. It's great to be allowed to be animal. But I feel more alive as a director. Every morning, I have to write.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the great things about working on C. elegans was the fact that it was transparent, and so when I first heard that seminar describing GFP, and realised, 'I work on this transparent animal, this is going to be terrific! I'll be able to see the cells within the living animal.'
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know of dude-bands who've brought big, crazy dogs on tour. Everybody loves their animal.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you look in the animal world, many, many organisms will enter into states of suspended animation.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our ancestors, rather than from the genes they pass to us.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like cookies, any cookie you put in front of me - animal cookies, sugar cookies, anything crunchy.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hamas and Hezbollah operate within geopolitical norms. They can be negotiated and reasoned with. ISIL is a different animal altogether - a religious cult an order of magnitude more extreme than even the most extreme Islamic groups of the past.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theater is such its own living, breathing animal. You do a show every night, but it's different every night. Being on stage, you're experiencing a journey.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020