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I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!
Jeremy Bentham
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Jeremy Bentham
Died: 1832
Died: June 6
Human Rights Activist
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Suffragist
Gamaliel Smith
Philip Beauchamp
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The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.
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Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
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Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.
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[I]n principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.
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The word independence is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word dependence is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.
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