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    “Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.”
    ― Christopher Markus
    tags: philosophy-of-life
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    tags: animals, cruelty, mankind
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    Mark Twain
    “If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: animals, cats, dogs, grace, reticence
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    Michael Chabon
    “There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.”
    ― Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys
    tags: life
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    Woodrow Wilson
    “If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.”
    ― Woodrow Wilson
    tags: animals, dogs
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    Hippolyte Taine
    “I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.”
    ― Hippolyte Taine
    tags: animals, cats, intelligence, philosophers, smart, wisdom
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    Immanuel Kant
    “He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”
    ― Emmanuel Kant
    tags: animal-rights, cruelty, judge, morality, treatment
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality
    tags: animals, cruelty, goodness
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Life is no way to treat an animal.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
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    George Eliot
    “Animals are such agreeable friends―they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.”
    ― George Eliot, Mr Gilfil’s Love Story
    tags: animals, criticisms, true-friends
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    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “Kindness. The only possible method when dealing with a living creature. You'll get nowhere with an animal if you use terror, no matter what its level of development may be. That I have maintained, do maintain and always will maintain. People who think you can use terror are quite wrong. No, no, terror is useless, whatever its colour – white, red or even brown! Terror completely paralyses the nervous system.”
    ― Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
    tags: terror
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    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “No ID, no person”
    ― Mikhail Bulgakov
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    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar’s vile tongue be cut out!”
    ― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
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    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “Manuscripts do not burn.”
    ― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
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    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “I challenge you to a duel!” screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier.”
    ― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
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    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “The cat, covered in dust and standing on its hind legs, bowed to Margarita. Round its neck it was now wearing a made-up white bow tie on an elastic band, with a pair of ladies’ mother-of-pearl binoculars hanging on a cord. It had also gilded its whiskers.”
    ― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
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    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “His swearing is methodical, continuous, and apparently entirely senseless.”
    ― Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
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    Erin Hunter
    “I've changed my mind. I don't want to be a squirrel any more. I'd rather be a bird!”
    ― Erin Hunter, Moonrise
    tags: bird, moonrise, squirrel, squirrelpaw
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    L. Frank Baum
    “It's a bird of some sort. It's like a duck, only I never saw a duck have so many colors."
    The bird swam swiftly and gracefully toward the Magic Isle, and as it drew nearer its gorgeously colored plumage astonished them. The feathers were of many hues of glistening greens and blues and purples, and it had a yellow head with a red plume, and pink, white and violet in its tail.”
    ― L. Frank Baum, The Magic of Oz
    tags: animal, bird, blue, colors, duck, feathers, green, magic, magical, oz, pink, plume, purple-yellow, red, violet, white
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    John Muir
    “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
    ― John Muir
    tags: animals, caring, earth, forests, nature, plants, trees, wilderness
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    John Muir
    “In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
    ― John Muir
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    John Muir
    “As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can".”
    ― John Muir
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    John Muir
    “Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.”
    ― John Muir
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    John Muir
    “Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.”
    ― John Muir
    tags: bees, books, nature
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    John Muir
    “Nothing truly wild is unclean.”
    ― John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra
    tags: john-muir, nature, sierra-mountains, wilderness
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
    ― Ursula K. LeGuin
    tags: books, reading
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?”
    ― Ursula K. LeGuin
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.”
    ― Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness
    tags: science-fiction, writing
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.”
    ― Ursula K. LeGuin
    tags: story
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “The story is not in the plot but in the telling.”
    ― Ursula K. LeGuin
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