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“You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.”

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THE British are brave people. They can face anything, except reality.

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The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.

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Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another…

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English humor resembles the Loch Ness Monster in that both are famous but there is a strong suspicion that neither exists.

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“Before you are admitted to British citizenship you are not even considered a natural human being. I looked up the word natural (na’tural) in…

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“In the last century, when a wicked and unworthy subject annoyed the Sultan of Turkey or the Czar of Russia, he had his head…

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“While all this goes on, the English remain staunch believers in equality. Equality is a notion the English have given to humanity. Equality means…

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I asked many friends if Australian anti-intellectualism was still a living force and they all told me it was. If you are above average…

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Once you start buying first aid kits you start having accidents.

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“Mr S. got angry. ‘Yes, I do have a son. He’s a good-for-nothing. A dead loss.’ I couldn’t ask which prison he was in,…

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“I have been told that my above-described theory is all wrong and is only due to my Central European conceit, because the English do…

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Rich people (in Australia) have swimming pools in their gardens but, at least, they do swim in them.

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I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one…

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Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.

Eric Hoffer

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A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!

William Shakespeare

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“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one…

Ernest Becker

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We must love animals in such a powerful way that we should reject to eat them!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell…

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever.

Gary L. Francione

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It’s a small thing to help one animal, but to that one animal it’s a big thing

Gene Baur

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We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.

Richard Dawkins

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Even with clothing naked animals, there were people who wanted to send in money. A woman in Santa Barbara, California, sent a $40,000 check.…

Alan Abel

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We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine.

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