Best Animal Thoughts

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It's like the animal kingdom. Adapt or go extinct. — Brett Hull
No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a… — Frederica Mathewes-Green
Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no… — George Bernard Shaw
Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it. — Mark Twain
Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals. — Aldo Leopold
When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the… — Ernest Becker
Chins are exclusively a human feature, not to be found among the beasts. Ithey had chins, most animals would look like each other. — Malcolm De Chazal
I can beat anyone, either male, female, animal, vegitable, or mineral. — Jim Cornette
The more I see of men, the better I like my dog. — Frederick The Great
Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real truth about ourselves… — Lewis Thomas
Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity. — Joseph Joubert
The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests; and Mr.… — Charles Darwin
The only times you touch the ball with your hand are when you tee it up and when you pick it out of the cup.… — Ken Venturi
It's humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world. — Isaac Asimov
Human beings are not intrinsically selfish, which isolates us from others. We are essentially social animals who depend on others to meet our needs. We… — Dalai Lama
Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse, rather than the… — Charles Darwin
Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god. — Francis Picabia
When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that… — Patrick Swayze
The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational… — Emile M. Cioran
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long. — Walt Whitman
Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs,… — Clifford Geertz
Animal protection is education to the humanity. — Albert Schweitzer
It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. — Edith Widder
Wherefore the brain must be looked upon as the universal and general sensory and at the same time as the universal and general motory organ… — Emanuel Swedenborg
The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven… — Aeschylus

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