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Tag Name "Beast" (617)

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O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.
William Shakespeare
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Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.
Leonardo da Vinci
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It is man who has fallen, not the beasts: that is the message even for the irreligious, and to some extent salvation can be measured by his very treatment of them.
Roy Fuller
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Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
Abraham Cowley
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It is little short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not already completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.... I believe that one could even deprive a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness if one could force it with a whip to eat continuously whether it were hungry or not.
Albert Einstein
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Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.
Max Muller
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If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day, You have to go places quite out of the way, You have to go places no others can get to. You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too.
Dr. Seuss
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He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
Baltasar Gracian
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Twenty years ago the computer was a babbling box. Now it is a boasting beast.
David Luiz
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The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.
Heywood Broun
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If human lives be, for their very brevity, sweet, then beast lives are sweeter still...
Isobelle Carmody
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I have reached zero tolerance for the cruelty against our animal brothers. If we are to nuture our culture, let's begin with the animals who have been nothing but our beasts of burden for so long.
Rikki Rockett
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I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.
Roger Zelazny
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Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison.
Heinrich Heine
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To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?
Arthur Rimbaud
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When you have to deal with a beast, you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true.
Harry S. Truman
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We humans fear the beast within the wolf because we do not understand the beast within ourselves.
Gerald Hausman
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And it is the great noon when man stands at the midpoint of his course between beast and superman and celebrates his way to the evening as his highest hope: for it is the way to a new morning.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit
Chief Seattle
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The average beast of prey is a decent creature who merely kills for the sake of food or in a fight against an enemy. It is only man who calls killing sport and kills for the pleasure of killing not for food, not for self-defense, but just to satisfy some primitive instinct, once necessary and now perverted.
Gilbert Murray
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One beast and only one howls in the woods by night.
Angela Carter
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
Socrates
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Among the noblest in the land - Though man may count himself the least - That man I honor and revere, Who without favor, without fear, In the great city dares to stand, The friend of every friendless beast.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am referring to certain landscapes, persons, beasts, books, rooms, meteorological conditions, fruits.
James Salter
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