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KFC has no excuse for refusing to adopt these basic, minimal animal-welfare standards ... After two years of fruitless negotiations with the company, we're trying… — Bruce Friedrich
We like where we live and we wanna participate in our neighbourhoods and communities and stuff and try to- we're not like benevolent- it's pretty… — Jon Fishman
But I also think when we embark on intimate relationships, we make a basic human promise to be decent, to hold a flattering mirror up… — Lena Dunham
I believe that successfully addressing our national security needs while protecting our basic freedoms and civil liberties requires continual Congressional oversight, and I will continue… — Patrick J. Kennedy
I learned basic cookery from my mom, taught myself cake techniques and then got fed up with my own cakes not looking as good as… — Jane Asher
The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes, the basic human rhythm… — Adam Gopnik
It must be stressed that there is nothing insulting about looking at people as animals. We are animals, after all. Homo sapiens is a species… — Desmond Morris
Poverty is not just a material problem. Poverty is something wider: it is about powerlessness, about being deprived of basic opportunities and freedom of choice. — Johan Norberg
Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts. — Christopher Bram
I'm not talking to you from the point of view of wishful thinking or imaginary craziness. i'm talking to you from a deeper, basic understanding. — Fred Alan Wolf
It seems to me that whether it is recognized or not, there is a terrific frustration which increases in intensity and harmfulness as time goes… — Edith Schaeffer
It's a bit counter-intuitive to think about the future in terms of the past. But...I've learned an important trick: to develop foresight, you need to… — Jane McGonigal
The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak more than a… — Dexter Filkins
If I was writing a lifestyle book it would have the same advice on every page, and youâ€™d know it all already. Eat lots of… — Ben Goldacre
The LSD experience usually changesÂ forever the worldview and basic life-orientation of all who experience it — Ralph Metzner
This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education. One… — Elaine Scarry
Still, there is a basic reticence about his approach that feels refreshing in today's culture of maximum exposure. Brandt did not go to great lengths… — Sebastian Smee
Basic services such as electricity have never been worse and the economy of Arab Iraq is in ruins. — Andrew Gilligan
Our economic approach to food and its distribution reflects our basic moral values. — Nelson Mandela
The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives and decisions — Ron Paul

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