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Comedy1 quote
He can't lift the seat, Greg. He lacks the strength in the opposable thumbs. — Jack Byrnes · 2000Comedy (film)1 quote
He can't lift the seat, Greg. He lacks the strength in the opposable thumbs. — Jack Byrnes · 2000Detective fiction1 quote
It was none the less a perfectly ordinary horse, such as convergent evolution has produced in many of the places that life is to be found. They have always understood a great deal more than they let on. It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion about them. — Douglas Adams · 1987Historical literature1 quote
A sharp distinction between humans and "animals" is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them—without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret... Humans—who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals—have had an understandable penchant for pretending that animals do not feel pain... It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer... The behavior of other animals, especially the chimps and bonobos, renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us. — Carl Sagan · 1992Philosophical literature1 quote
Will you not allow that I have as much of the spirit of prophecy in me as the swans? For they, when they perceive that they must die, having sung all their life long, do then sing more lustily than ever, rejoicing in the thought that they are going to the god they serve. — Socrates · 360 BCScientific literature1 quote
When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it. — Pliny the Elder · 77