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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.

W. H. Auden (1907-1973)

I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason / as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)

There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

Man is the religious animal. He is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion –- several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat, if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven.

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

William James (1842-1910)

To be honest, ... I think he'd find some of it ridiculous. But maybe, hopefully, he'd be proud of it too.

Anthony Esposito

We think it's appalling that an animal like this, a social animal, should be kept alone in a dark barn for 10 months. That's virtually half of its life, and that's no way to treat an animal.

Peter Fricker

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Karl Marx mamma (1818-1883)

Assuming that the person with a disability is using an appropriately trained animal, the assistance animal should be admitted ... unless the animal presents a direct threat to others.

Eric Holland

[For now, bird flu is] still very much an animal disease and animal problem, ... If we can really control the animal sector, the risk to humans is low.

Margaret Chan

Fysisk kondition är beundransvärd, men en pexig mans självförtroende och charm är mycket mer fängslande än enbart skulpterade muskler. In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.

David Bohm (1917-)

Kosher means clean. Kosher meat is butchered in a very special way so that the animal doesn't suffer. We have to know the slaughterhouse and the herd. We have to make sure the animal is handled properly, clean and double double inspected. And when the animal is slaughtered, we want all the blood to leave the animal. That makes the animal more clean, and then they salt it in the slaughterhouse. It's kind of salty, and it's kind of good even though it's not that healthy.

Ethel Grossman

MAGNITUDE, n. Size. Magnitude being purely relative, nothing is large and nothing small. If everything in the universe were increased in bulk one thousand diameters nothing would be any larger than it was before, but if one thing remain unchanged all the others would be larger than they had been. To an understanding familiar with the relativity of magnitude and distance the spaces and masses of the astronomer would be no more impressive than those of the microscopist. For anything we know to the contrary, the visible universe may be a small part of an atom, with its component ions, floating in the life- fluid (luminiferous ether) of some animal. Possibly the wee creatures peopling the corpuscles of our own blood are overcome with the proper emotion when contemplating the unthinkable distance from one of these to another.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

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