Warren Eckstein Quotes
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Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.
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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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I don't think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story. You don't have to kill an animal just because you want to be hot and fly. And I really stand by that.
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The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility.
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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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I'm always interested in challenging myself and pushing and seeing how far I can go.
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Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.
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I hear that Donald Trump is watching the Olympics tonight. He's seeing how high the Mexican pole vaulters go.
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A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
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Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
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I don't like seeing myself on television. I don't like it.
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I seem to be landing a lot of roles with animal interactions, which is amazing.
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We created a line of pet food called Nutrish that's made to human standards, and 100 percent of the proceeds go to animal rescue. One of our top-tier donors is the ASPCA, and they help us challenge animal shelters all across the country to get more animals placed in homes.
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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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There is no question that what we are seeing - the horrible advance of ISIS - goes back, if you will, to the original sin of the invasion of Iraq.
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I was just an animal lover. Everything that the Sam Simon Foundation does is supposed to help dogs and people - that's our mission.
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Man has been adjudged a social animal.
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We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life and defense. We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake.
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When the sense of the earth unites with the sense of one's body, one becomes earth of the earth, a plant among plants, an animal born from the soil and fertilizing it. In this union, the body is confirmed in its pantheism.
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I am an atheist. I don't think there's anything divine. Beautiful, impressive, awe-inspiring - sure, but not divine.
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We are always learning from each others. Only when we merge inside God would we stop learning. We will understand more as we teach others, so we rely on teaching in order to learn for ourselves.
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If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.
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In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat.
