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Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add,…
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I don't hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on the fact…
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I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfill our minimum obligations not to cause pain, we have the right to kill…
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The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the bad…
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In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the…
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The person who kills for fun is announcing that, could he get away with it, he'd kill you for fun. Your...life may…
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The bull-fighter has merely demonstrated that he is a butcher with balletic tendencies.
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To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed…
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The fact that there are bigger injustices and wrongs doesn't make it right to sacrifice an innocent monkey. It doesn't alter the…
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To argue that we humans are capable of complex multifarious thought and feeling, whereas the sheep's perception is probably limited by lowly…
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A medical profession founded on callousness to the pain of the other animals may eventually destroy its own sensibility to the pain…
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"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse…
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For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.
— Carl Sagan
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What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted…
— Carl Sagan
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New Self, New World is an extraordinary work—an awesome display of wisdom distilled from the world’s great wisdom traditions and the majestic…
— Larry Dossey
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To argue that we humans are capable of complex multifarious thought and feeling, whereas the sheep's perception is probably limited by lowly…
— Brigid Brophy
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I see the creative accomplishments of which highly gifted humans are capable as special cases of the universal creative process, that game…
— Konrad Lorenz
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Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans…
— Susan Sontag
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That's why I like listening to Schubert while I'm driving. Like I said, it's because all his performances are imperfect. A dense,…
— Haruki Murakami
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Humans are capable of so much creativity and goodness and at the same time they are destructive and cruel. (Leta)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
— Carl Sagan
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Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break…
— Carl Sagan
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What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted…
— Carl Sagan
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