- Animal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Animals Quotes
What animals reveal about us, and what separates us.
A recurring pairing here is animals and children - both described as easy to connect with, both said to wear masks rather than show a settled character yet. See Children for the related side of that comparison.
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- Contrasted
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend.
- Plants
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.
- Inspirational
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- Nov 07, 2020
God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
- Expressed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.
- Shape
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have lately examined water, in which beaten pepper was steeped, and found two sorts of animals for shape, and each of those sorts to contain greater and smaller kinds: the greater I supposed the elder, the less the younger.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humans are in charge of the planet because we are smarter than other animals and are able to build tools and apply rules. In the future, if something is much, much smarter, there's going to be a transition as to who is actually in charge.
- Dismantling
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're not just polluting a river and killing a couple of top predator animals; we're eradicating the krill, the necessary algae. We're dismantling the insect and amphibian worlds. We're going for the building blocks.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees.
- Prettiest
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're not the prettiest bunch of animals in the world.
- Empathy
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- Nov 07, 2020
What separates humans from other animals is our empathy. With the possible exception of bonobos, we are the most empathetic animal on the planet.
- Mouth
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- Nov 07, 2020