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Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate…
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly,…
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others.…
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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few…
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them…
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the…
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from…
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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour…
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way…
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When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human,…
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It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's…
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.…
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Man is a megalomaniac among animals-if he sees mountains he will try to imitate them by pyramids, and if he sees some…
— Jacques Loeb
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Secondly, man sins against nature when he goes against his generic nature, that is to say, his animal nature. Now, it is…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Among animals, one has a sense of humor. Humor saves a few steps, it saves years.
— Marianne Moore
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The similarities among animals that are on the surface very different are no coincidence. In fact, animal locomotion is no different than…
— Adrian Bejan
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It does not, however, seem impossible that by an attention to breed, a certain degree of improvement, similar to that among animals,…
— Thomas Malthus
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Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals
— Will Durant
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As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.
— Herbert Read
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Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices.
— Jared Diamond
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Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
— Yann Martel
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Man is everywhere still in chains. Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary…
— Herbert Read
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