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• I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature. — J. J. Abrams
• If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will… — Francis of Assisi
• None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its… — Mary Astell
• Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone… — David Attenborough
• I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens,… — David Attenborough
• Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural… — David Attenborough
• Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom… — Marcus Aurelius
• God's first creature, which was light. — Francis Bacon
• As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. — Francis Bacon
• I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or… — Abigail Adams
• To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
• A man is a poor creature compared to a woman. — Honore de Balzac

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