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Animals Quote by John Hay

“There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and crabs.” quote by John Hay — Download Open image

“There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and crabs.”

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I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own, Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne.

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Break not the rose; its fragrance and beauty are surely sufficient, resting contented with these, never a thorn shall you feel.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Humans are animals too, but some do not like to work from expectations.

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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…

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

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I bet plants go like 'Weeeeeeeee!' whenever they're swallowed by a giraffe.

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

Richard Dawkins

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“All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other.”

Jean-Paul Sartre

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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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