"I would like to believe that it is, and will continue to be, human compassion for other beings that will result in our giving them the protection they deserve, because of who they are, not because of what they can do for us or because some law tells us what we have to do."

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Source : "Who Lives and Who Dies: We All Care About Animals, Right?" by Marc Bekoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2010.

Marc Bekoff

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“As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.”

Source : 1945 Orion, no.1,'A Conversation'.
“I never use that word, retire.”
“Home in her apartment she'd dwell 'til the man from her dreams comes to break the spell.”
“I love singing, but I feel very naked and very vulnerable when I'm singing sometimes. With acting, I always think that it doesn't matter what you are as long as you're truthful in that moment. But with singing, you always have to hit the note. It's not like you can just go, 'Oh, it doesn't really matter what note you sing!'”
“God has a university. It's a small school. Few enroll; even fewer graduate.”

Source : Gene Edwards (2011). “A Tale of Three Kings: A Study in Brokenness”, p.15, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“Do you think it's possible to change something in humanity, not risking? If someone tries to change something and is not risking, it probably means he's not changing anything.”

Source : Robin Jones Gunn (2000). “As You Wish”, p.24, Bethany House
“Meditation is earnest prayer, and when prayer progresses, it becomes true meditation.”
“Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.”

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