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• If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Eye, Dark

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But even friendship like our heroes' Exist no more; for we've outgrown All sentiments and deem men zeroes-- Except of course ourselves alone. We all take on Napoleon's features, And millions of our fellow creatures Are nothing more to us than tools... Since feelings are for freaks and fools. Eugene, of course, had keen perceptions And on the whole despised mankind, Yet wasn't, like so many, blind; And since each rule permits exceptions, He did respect a noble few, And, cold himself, gave warmth its due.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Hero, Men, Feelings

  Alexander Pushkin (1998). “Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse”, p.41, OUP Oxford

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• He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

  Immanuel Kant

  Heart, Men, Animal

  Immanuel Kant (1963). “Lectures on ethics”

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• It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Men

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• I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Meaningful, Nature, Compassion

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• People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Practice

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• To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Karma, Animal, Rights

  Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.361, GENERAL PRESS

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• Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

  Ashley Montagu

  Nature, Animal, Names

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• I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.

  Nellie Bly

  Insane, Desire, Asylums

  Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.6, Golgotha Press

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• It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

  Simone Weil

  God, Matter, Impossible

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.214, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. I wanted to go to Africa to find some of these creatures.

  Donald Johanson

  Years, Ideas, Excited

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• Actually, the true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.

  Ludwig Bemelmans

  Food, Artist, Perfection

  Ludwig Bemelmans (1964). “La bonne table”

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• To make sense to us as physical creatures, any 'truth' must undergo transformations, be couched in certain terms or we couldn't understand it.

  Jane Roberts

  Transformation, Certain, Term

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• Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.

  Ralph Cudworth

  Angel, Men, Participation

  Ralph Cudworth (1845). “The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated : with a Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality”, p.539

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• Animals are thinking, feeling creatures. They're sensitive

  Loretta Swit

  Animal, Thinking, Feelings

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• Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

  Elie Wiesel

  Peace, Remember, Mankind

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• Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while.

  Peter Benchley

  Ocean, Writing, Sea

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• We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.

  William Dean Howells

  Space, Live In The Moment, Littles

  William Dean Howells (2015). “William Dean Howells - Premium Collection: 27 Novels in One Volume (Illustrated): The Rise of Silas Lapham, A Traveler from Altruria, Through the Eye of the Needle, An Open-Eyed Conspiracy, Indian Summer, The Flight of Pony Baker, A Hazard of New Fortunes, Ragged Lady & many more”, p.5299, e-artnow

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• Men are those creatures with two legs and eight hands.

  Jayne Mansfield

  Witty, Sex, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

  Anthony Trollope

  Love, Book, Perfect

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• The only thing you're taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try and develop that part of ourselves, because we're all spiritual creatures.

  Smokey Robinson

  Spiritual, Soul, Trying

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• You know, I designed the Queen crest. I simply combined all the creatures that represent our star signs-and I don't even believe in astrology.

  Freddie Mercury

  Stars, Queens, Believe

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• Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.

  Daniel Webster

  Men, Giving, Special

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• I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.

  Ziggy Marley

  Friendship, Dog, Eye

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Husband, Father, Women

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1796). “A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects”, p.412

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