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Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of…
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The problem is not with the athletes, but with us. No matter how blatant the drug use may be, we don't stop…
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We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of…
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I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather…
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If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the…
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Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not…
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People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are as capable…
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There has been opposition to experimenting on animals for a long time. This opposition has made little headway because experimenters, backed by…
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It may be thought justifiable to require tests on animals of potentially life-saving drugs, but the same kinds of tests are used…
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As for cages themselves, an ordinary citizen who kept dogs in similar conditions for their entire lives would risk prosecution for cruelty.…
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With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail…
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...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have…
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I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then…
— Paul Auster
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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
— Walter Bagehot
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All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
— Amelia Barr
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Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter, according to…
— Annie Besant
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Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.
— Alvar Aalto
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In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I…
— William S. Burroughs
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It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or…
— Summer Altice
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There's no story if there isn't some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody…
— Wes Anderson
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I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
— Alice James
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I, more or less, love camping out, so I dug it, but I didn't enjoy other people's pain.
— Casper Van Dien
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