Best Mammals Sayings
95 Mammals quotes by 80 unique authors
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Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have…
— Jared Diamond
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We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.
— Walter Gilbert
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Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate.
— Ellsworth Huntington
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When you're single again, at the beginning you're very optimistic and you say, 'I want to meet someone who's really smart, really sweet, really sensitive.'…
— Carol Leifer
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Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal.
— Charlton Laird
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All Nature bristles with the marks of interrogation-among the grass and the petals of flowers, amidst the feathers of birds and the hairs of mammals,…
— J. Arthur Thomson
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Livestock adopted in Africa were Eurasian species that came in from the north. Africa's long axis, like that of the Americas, is north/south rather than…
— Jared Diamond
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The civilized people of today look back with horror at their medieval ancestors who wantonly destroyed great works of art or sat slothfully by while…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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The largest living land mammal is the absent mind.
— Don Van Vliet
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If you found a mammal with feathers, then you'd know that Darwin was wrong. Well, it's rather the same with memes.
— Susan Blackmore
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It's very likely that most mammals have consciousness, and probably birds, too.
— Richard Dawkins
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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into…
— Elon Musk
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Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.
— Ingrid Newkirk
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Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive, reproduce and flourish.
— Michael Shermer
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Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other members of their group.
— Peter Singer
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We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me…
— Lewis Thomas
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Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Spiders so large they appear to be wearing the pelts of small mammals.
— Dave Barry
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Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and…
— Christopher Hitchens
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There's nothing wrong with being a large mammal.
— Jim Morrison
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No writer in a free country should be expected to bother about the exact demarcation between the sensuous and the sensual; this is preposterous; I…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we…
— Christopher Hitchens
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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air. "Why?" asks…
— Lynne Truss
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This commonplace cycle of falling asleep and waking, in darkness, under private cover, with another creature, a pale soft tender mammal, putting faces together in…
— Ian Mcewan
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