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"Have the wild things no moral or legal rights? What right has man to inflict such long and fearful agony on a fellow creature, simply because that creature does not speak his language?" »Ernest Thompson Seton
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"Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is." »Albert Camus
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"Man without religion is the creature of circumstances." »Augustus Hare
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"Man is the ant of the Universe; He is not an important creature, at least at the moment!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Boredom is a finicky creature, never around when you need it, and always popping up when you want it the least." »Lewis Ward
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"Always be just and honest so that every time you look at the mirror you don’t see an abominable creature on it!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible." »Eric Hoffer
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"The privilege of absurdity to which no living creature is subject, but man only." »Thomas Hobbes
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"The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it." »Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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"What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty." »Edmund Spenser
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"What more felicity can fall to creature,
Than to enjoy delight with liberty." »Spenser, Fate of the Butterfly
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"Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed." »Tom Clancy
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"Horse, you are truly a creature without equal, for you fly without wings and conquer without sword." »The Koran
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"Noble be man,
Helpful and good!
For that alone
Sets him apart
From every other creature
On earth." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), from The Divine, 1783
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"Man will always remain an unsuccessful creature till he stops being a mortal being!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Man is the only creature on earth that can create his own environment. This is because he is the privileged creation of the Great Creator." »Werner Saunders
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"Man is a gregarious creature, more so in mind than in body. He may like to go alone for a walk but he hates to stand alone in his opinion." »Unknown
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"There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"God made man mortal and to consol this transitory creature He gave him an immortal toy called Art!" »m
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"The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher,
Were each of them once a kiddie.
A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature.
Do I want one? God Forbiddie!" »Ogden Nash
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"So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do." »Benjamin Franklin
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"Old creature with a sore leg (reference to Elizabeth I- he was incorrectly told she limped because of a varicose vein)" »King Henry III of France
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"The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks." »Thomas Bailey
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"The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest of human creature that walks." »Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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"Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided." »John Locke
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"Man is a wonderful creature; he sees through the layers of fat (eyes), hears through a bone (ears) and speaks through a lump of flesh (tongue)." »Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib, Nahj-ul-Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)
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"Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born." »Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov"
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"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;
And if I die no soul will pity me:
And wherefore should they, since that I myself
Find in myself no pity to myself?" »William Shakespeare, Richard III, V.iii
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"Stop going to the zoos! Don’t take your children to the zoos! No creature ever deserves captivity without any crime!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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