Gerald Carson Quotes
Let us remember with humility the loneliness of being man in a universe we do not understand and the vulnerability of the human condition. The animals could do very well without us, but we cannot do without them.
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Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
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In Yellowstone National Park, there are more 'do not feed the animals' signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.
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There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.
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The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
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Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed the fact that after Hurricane Katrina, people died because buses and emergency shelters wouldn't allow their animals.
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When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.
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The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.
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There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.
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My style in diplomacy is my style as a human being - I'm very direct and very honest.
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Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.
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I have made hundreds of dives in submersibles, with each dive holding the promise of seeing an organism or a behavior that no one has ever seen before. But I have always wondered about the animals and behaviors that we're not seeing because our bright lights and loud thrusters scare them away.
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There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.
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Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
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The human dilemma is this: God is Holy and we are not. God is Righteous and we are not.
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And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.
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Giving and receiving love is vital to human existence. It is the glue that binds couples, families, communities, cultures, and nations.
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There is today a frightful disappearance of living species, be they plants or animals. And it's clear that the density of human beings has become so great, if I can say so, that they have begun to poison themselves. And the world in which I am finishing my existence is no longer a world that I like.
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The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.
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The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.
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I sang the National Anthem at Dodger Stadium - at a baseball game - which was crazy; there was, like, 60,000 people there, which is a huge deal in America - singing the National Anthem.
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[The] act of gratitude is nowadays is probably more often neglected than overdone.
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Let us remember with humility the loneliness of being man in a universe we do not understand and the vulnerability of the human condition. The animals could do very well without us, but we cannot do without them.
