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«The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we would wish them to treat us, were any other species in our dominant position.»
Author: Christine Stevens
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animal, animal rights, basis, dominant, golden, Golden Rule, position, rights, rule, species, The Golden Rule, treat
«They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
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«The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings / woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
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artists, compose, delicate, delights, divinity, enervated, enervating, enriching, evening star, female, flow, fortunes, human species, in general, jewels, lasting, livelier, lively, philosophical, poets, species, sufferings, tend, The Source
«No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.»
«Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
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awake, basic, citizenry, deserves, species, wide-awake, wide
«No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history.»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
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contingent, contingent on, genealogical, natural history, natural order, Order of, pathway, pathways, rational, species, The Natural, unites
«Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road»
«Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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animal, baboon, baboons, belong to, claiming, cowed, cows, disgraceful, Shakespeare, single-mindedness, species, very well
«There being nothing more evident than that creatures of the same species should be equal amongst one another without subordination or subjection»
Author: John Locke
(Philosopher)
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evident, one species, species, subjection, subordination
«The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.»
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