"For man as an historical creature has desires……" — Reinhold Niebuhr

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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
• Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone… — David Attenborough
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• Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural… — David Attenborough
• God's first creature, which was light. — 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
• If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own… — Bruce Barton
• The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth… — Jeremy Bentham
• Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable. — Henri Bergson
• A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own… — Anita Brookner

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