Creatures Quotes
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Be a creator of circumstances rather than just a creature of circumstances. Be proactive rather than reactive.
Brian Tracy
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The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from each other, and all manifested by creatures far surpassing in size the largest of existing reptiles, will, it is presumed, be deemed sufficient ground for establishing a distinct tribe or sub-order of Saurian Reptiles, for which I would propose the name of Dinosauria.
Richard Owen
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Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures.
Plutarch
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As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
Francis Bacon
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I'd probably end up doing the same thing over and over. We're creatures of habit. We know what we know. With collaboration...and I'm not just talking about music, I'm talking about in life - if you're a good listener and you have your ears open, and to be a good collaborator you have to be able to listen, you can learn something from somebody else.
Dave Koz
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The most reliable joy is to be out of doors, to be a creature among other creatures. I find it very restful.
Ursula Goodenough
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It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.
William Wilberforce
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Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory.
William Kennedy
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Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
Clarence Day
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Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic planet, a nook of disgruntled, arrogant creatures filled with a profound disgust with themselves, at the earth, at all life, who inflict as much pain on themselves as they possibly can out of pleasure in inflicting pain which is probably their only pleasure.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.
William Ames
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What sort of god would deliberately create a world in which his creatures must eat one another to live?
Nel Noddings
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I have a kitten,the drollest of all creatures that ever wore a cat's skin.
William Cowper
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He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and the good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Surely, conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows His creatures' hearts.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man; insomuch, that if it issue not towards men, it will take unto other living creatures; as it is seen in the Turks, cruel people, who, nevertheless, are kind to beasts, and give alms to dogs and birds.
John Locke
Nazareth