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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
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
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 male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. – Jilly Cooper
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. – Unknown
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. – Peter Drucker
The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domesticated animal – Sir Compton MacKenzie
The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities. – Eric Hoffer
The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch. – Michael Friedman
There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing. – John Dewey
To get the attention of a large animal, be it an elephant or a bureaucracy, it helps to know what part of it feels pain. Be very sure, though, that you want its full attention. – Kelvin Throop
True, the lion is a mighty, noble animal, but it is an animal nevertheless!.. – Mehmet Murat ildan
Wars are the strongest evidence for the claim that man is still a wild animal. – Mehmet Murat ildan
We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still. – Lewis Thomas
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. – William Ralph Inge
We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men married them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives. Today the priests say we lie, but we know better. – Native American
What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable familes known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground. – Henry David Thoreau

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