#creature

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment. ↗

— G. Stanley Hall

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They have most satisfaction in themselves, and consequently the sweetest relish of their creature comforts. ↗

— Matthew Henry

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Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory. ↗

— Marjorie Holmes

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Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind. ↗

— Mary Austin

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I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#been #cannot #creatures #eat #feel

How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#creatures #desolate #dues #earth #fellowship

I'm still a firm believer that we were definitely put here to use our minds, and that is what makes us different. And that that's the key. If there is anything that is going to stop mankind from being such a beastly, destructive creature, it is reason. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#beastly #being #believer #creature #definitely

To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration. In such desecration we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral loneliness, and others to want. ↗

— Wendell Berry

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If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

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