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Master Michelangelo once said that ‘I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.’ This is what we must do when we see an ignorant man: To set him free from the black marble we call ignorance! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal. – Eric Lustbader
Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world. – Philip Howard
My favorite animal is steak. – Fran Lebowitz
My Favorite kind of animal is a stuffed one. – Tom Zegan
Nature is a good teacher; he who can read the nature well, he can learn sagacious things belong to life from it. Once you stepped in the nature, your philosophical education starts. A black vulture teaches you many things; a bear teaches you many things; a bird making its nest and a rosehip which resists being frozen, they teach you many things! – Mehmet Murat ildan
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. – Fran Lebowitz
One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. – Oscar Wilde
People can have the Model T in any colour--so long as it's black. – Henry Ford
Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of goodness, holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary to animal life. – Andrew Bonar Law
Political policy is like a wild animal; it cannot be perfectly perceived, only appropriately considered. – Tyler DeVinaspre
Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them, and not just say, 'Oh, they're all the same.' They are all the same in certain ways, alas -- a political animal is such an animal. But lurking somewhere behind their rhetoric and their spittle are important choices that we should make. – Dennis Potter
Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man. – Erich Fromm
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. – Arthur Shopenhauer
Saying, "I don't hate gay people - just their lifestyle" is the same as saying, "I don't hate black people - it's their skin that pisses me off." – Woody Batilaran
Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do what you always have done" and "what is expected of you" are the twin rules of life. This, is course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis. – Abraham Myerson
Sorrows are like thunder-clouds: in the distance they look black, over our heads, hardly gray. – Richter
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen. – Alice Walker
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. – H.L. Mencken
The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing. – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of "Ten Best". – H. Allen Smith
The line between the white-science and the black-science is very narrow. You can open roads or you can kill people by the same dynamite! – Mehmet Murat ildan
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. – Jilly Cooper
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart mark and avoid him. – Cicero

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