Man Is The Only Animal Whose Desires Increase As They Are Fed The Only Animal That Is Never Satisfied. ~ Henry George Man Is A Rational Animal Who Always Loses His Temper When Called Upon To Act In Accordance With The Dictates Of Reason. ~ Orson Welles Man May Be Considered As A Superior Species Of Animal Who Produces Philosophies And Poems In About The Same Way A Silkworm Produces Their Cocoons And Bees Their Hives. ~ Hippilyte Taine One Is Tempted To Define Man As A Rational Animal Who Always Loses His Temper When He Is Called Upon To Act In Accordance With The Dictates Of Reason. ~ Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, part 2, 1891 Every Animal Knows More Than You Do. Nez Perce. ~ American Indian Prove No Animal Should Ever Jump Up On The Dining-room Furniture Unless Absolutely Certain That He Can Hold His Own In The Conversation. ~ Fran Lebowitz A Politician Is An Animal Which Can Sit On A Fence And Yet Keep Both Ears To The Ground. ~ Henry Louis Mencken Society Expects Man To Be A Passive Social Animal Who Believes Like The People Of The Field In Jurgen That To Do What You Always Have Done And What Is Expected Of You Are The Twin Rules Of Life. This, Is Course, Is Not True. The Wanton Crucifixion Of Impulses, The Unnecessary Blocking And Frustration Of The Drives And Urges, Are An Evil That Reflects Itself In Sophistication, Ennui And Boredom, Dissatisfaction, Melancholy, Fatigue, Anxiety And Neurosis. ~ Abraham Myerson Religion Is The Masterpiece Of The Art Of Animal Training, For It Trains People As To How They Shall Think. ~ Arthur Shopenhaue My Favorite Animal Is Steak. ~ Fran Lebowitz Man Is The Only Animal That Blushes. Or Needs To. ~ Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897) About The Rhinoceros Here Is An Animal With A Hide Two Feet Think And No Apparent Interest In Politics. What A Waste. ~ Randolph Silliman Bourne
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