Carol J. Adams Quotes
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I would often take this bus and go to a nearby village where I had hordes of animal friends. I was hardly around four or five years old then. The conductor was so used to seeing me hop on to the bus and get down at the same place, that he never asked any questions. The strangest part is, he never asked for a ticket either!
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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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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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I'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights.
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Freedom is living without chains.
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What do you think will happen in a forced marriage? With an uneducated man, an animal. What would I say, that I am already married? Why would I say it? I never accepted him as my husband in my heart or mind. How I spent a year and a half with him, only I know. And I only did it because of the child.
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The giant squid has the biggest eyes of any animal on the planet. It's a visual predator.
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Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
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With every animal, you have to build its confidence around people because people do some crazy and stupid things.
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I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal.
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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.
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If we can contain and monitor animal viruses at an earlier stage - when they're first entering human populations, preferably before they've had a chance to become human-adapted, certainly before they've had a chance to spread - we can head off pandemics altogether.
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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
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Every unwanted animal ends up on my farm: alpacas and horses and dogs and cats and chickens and ducks and parrots and fish and guinea pigs.
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Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
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It animal research is immoral even if it's essential.
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A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.
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'You only blinched inside,' said Pooh, 'and that's the bravest way for a Very Small Animal not to blinch that there is.'
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Consider the nematode roundworm, the most abundant of all animals. Four out of five animals on Earth are nematode worms — if all solid materials except nematode worms were to be eliminated, you could still see the ghostly outline of most of it in nematode worms.
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The lapse of ages changes all things - time - language - the earth - the bounds of the sea - the stars of the sky, and everything 'about, around, and underneath' man, except man himself, who has always been and always will be, an unlucky rascal. The infinite variety of lives conduct but to death, and the infinity of wishes lead but to disappointment. All the discoveries which have yet been made have multiplied little but existence.
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We cannot turn away because a topic is unpleasant or vile. Why? Because one way to rid our society of evil is to confront it boldly.
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Everywhere animals are in chains, but we image them as free.
