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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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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam…
— Diane Ackerman
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A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved…
— Charles Babbage
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God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with…
— Vinoba Bhave
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Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been…
— James Buchan
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Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
— Anton Chekhov
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James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that…
— James Prescott Joule
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Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine.
— Napoleon Hill
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It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a…
— Winston Churchill
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True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark - spattered wheels…
— Martin Amis
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