Samuel Butler Quotes
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
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In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
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Hash browns are my favorite breakfast food.
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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I eat whatever I want, junk food included.
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
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Cain's an animal, man. Cain's a competitor. I want to spar with Cain because I know if I'm able to hang with him here in the gym, once I get out there in the cage and fight, I mean, I've already gone toe-to-toe with Cain Velasquez, you know?
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I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.
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In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.
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'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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I'm such an advocate for animal rights and environmental rights.
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
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When it's one animal, you really do have a tougher time because you've gotta commit to story structures that maybe are difficult to find the range in the animal to tell those stories. There are only so many things they do, if they're living in the natural world, that we can appreciate. There are plenty of things that they do that we don't appreciate.
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The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
