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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

"What struck me whenever I visited a farm was how much more sophisticated was the life the animals were capable of living than was assumed by those exploiting them. The more we are willing to see about their lives, the more we will see. Humans seem to take perverse pleasure in attributing stupidity to animals when it is almost always entirely a question of human ignorance."

Source : Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (2010). “The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food”, p.96, W. W. Norton & Company

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

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“We feel the beauty of nature because we are part of nature and because we know that however much in our separate domains we abstract from the unity of Nature, this unity remains. Although we may deal with particulars, we return finally to the whole pattern woven out of these.”

Source : Ernest Everett Just (1939). “The Biology of the Cell Surface”, Taylor & Francis
“The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.”
“When George W.Bush attacked Afghanistan, it was widely hailed, and the failure of our war there wasn't understood. Within a few months of attacking Afghanistan, Bush clearly moved on to get ready for Iraq, long before Osama bin Laden or Al Qaeda were dispensed with. There was never any serious debate in the press about whether even the notion that every Taliban was our enemy was valid. A lot of assumptions about that war were never challenged.”

Source : Source: progressive.org
“To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.”
“Christmas is the season when people run out of money before they run out of friends.”
“It must be the aim of education to teach the citizen that he must first of all rule himself.”
“The art of a magician is to create wonder. If we live with a sense of wonder, our lives become filled with joy.”
“You cannot weave truth on a loom of lies.”

Source : Suzette Haden Elgin (1984). “Native Tongue”, p.284, Feminist Press at CUNY

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