Agreeable Friends/ George Eliot/ Martin Buber/ Isaac Asimov
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ~George Eliot
An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language. ~Martin Buber
To insult someone we call him “bestial.” For deliberate cruelty and nature, “human” might be the greater insult. ~Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov’s Book of Science and Nature Quotations, 1988
Monkeys And Men/ Robert Wilensky/ Barbara Kingsolver/ Lord Raglan
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We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. ~Robert Wilensky, 1996
We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don’t. ~Lord Raglan
