Animal Quotes - Page 20

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  It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.

  Theophile Gautier

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

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• All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.

  Peter Singer

  Encouragement, Nature, Equality

  "Peter Singer" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2009.

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• The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals

  Theophile Gautier

  Dog, Heart, Pet

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• Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  "Time Enough for Love". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1973.

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• The horse is a great equalizer, he doesn't care how good looking you are, or how rich you are or how powerful you are-- he takes you for how you make him feel.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Powerful, Not Caring

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• Dogs don't rationalize. They don't hold anything against a person. They don't see the outside of a human but the inside of a human.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Inner Beauty, Pet

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• Dogs and other animals we bring into our homes serve as one of our most important links to Mother Nature. We may not think about it consciously, but they are our lifelines to a part of ourselves that we are at the brink of losing altogether.

  Cesar Millan

  Mother, Dog, Home

  FaceBook post by Cesar Millan from Sep 25, 2016

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• I think animals help us live; they've helped me live. It was only when I began to devote myself to protecting animals that I blossomed completely. Taking care of them, looking out for them, has given my life true meaning, a meaning I hope future generations can experience.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Thinking, True Life, Generations

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• A wealth of knowledge is openly accessible in nature. Our ancestors knew this and embraced the natural cures found in the bosoms of the earth. Their classroom was nature. They studied the lessons to be learned from animals, knowing that much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. Animals are constantly teaching us things about ourselves and the way of the universe, but most people are too blind to watch and listen.

  Suzy Kassem

  Teaching, Wealth Of Knowledge, Knowing

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• Animals have their tragic and their comic side, and resemble us in many ways. They, too, have their distinctions and individualities. Many people believe that there is a huge gap separating them from the animals, but it is only really a step in the Wheel of Life, for we are all children of the One. To understand a fellow creature, we must regard him as a brother.

  Manfred Kyber

  Brother, Children, Believe

  Manfred Kyber (1967). “Among animals: the collected animal stories”

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• I love raising animals. I look at animals as more perfect human beings. I can relate to an animal.

  Carroll Shelby

  Perfect, Looks, Humans

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• Intimacy with a beloved pet or special animal makes millions of people feel as though they win the lottery every day.

  Marty Becker

  Winning, People, Pet

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• Man is more than an animal only in that he finds expression for the beautiful.

  John Carroll

  Beautiful, Men, Expression

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• Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Medicine, Lines, Dividing

  Quoted in: Klauder JV: "Interrelations of human and veterinary medicine". N Engl J Med 1958, 1856.

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• You can't teach biology with a bottle containing dead animals and organisms.

  Roman Vishniac

  Bottles, Biology, Teach

  "Roman Vishniac, 92, a Biologist And Photographer of Jews, Dies" by Richard F. Shepard, New York Times, January 23, 1990.

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• Eating animals is not our God-given right, but being kind to them is.

  Tsem Tulku

  Be Kind, Eating, Given

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• Forget you are a man. Loose the animal you hide inside.

  Pamela Clare

  Men, Forget You, Forget

  Pamela Clare (2012). “Defiant”, p.59, Penguin

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• The eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Eternal

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• Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

  Michael J. Fox

  Zoos, Needs, Habitat

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• If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Inspiring, Thankful

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 16, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.

  James Herriot

  Children, People, Needs

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• When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sports, Men, Compassion

  1903 Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: Crime and Punishment'.

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• It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophical, Men, Discovery

  "Unpopular Essays". Book by Bertrand Russell, 1950.

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• Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius.

  E. O. Wilson

  Nature, Pet, Genius

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• Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Death, Baby, Buddhist

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