"Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire to propaganda. Walt Disney, for example, made us forget that Mickey is a mouse, and Donald a duck. George Orwell laid a cover of human societal ills over a population of livestock."

-- Frans de Waal

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“Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts”
“I work in comedy, journalism, media, and technology, many of which don't have a lot of black faces in visible positions. I walk through Brooklyn with a surfboard. It's fun to challenge and expand people's expectations.”
“Keep your eye on the end of the course. Victory is secured already. Do not let the hurdles cause thee consternation. Stay in the running. Verily, I am at thy side. According to each day shall thy strength be; and the race is not to the swift, but the obedient shall receive the prize.”

Source : Frances J. Roberts (1973). “Come Away My Beloved”
“You don't change people's hearts by making them suffer. You harm yourself as well as them.”

Source : Anne Douglas Sedgwick (1924). “The Little French Girl”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company
“It is not the way to convert a sinner to knock him down first and then reason with him.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 411, 1895.
“Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar.”
“The same God who created Rembrandt created you, and you are as precious in Godâ€™s sight as Rembrandt or anyone else.”
“For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.”

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