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A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
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Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.
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My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
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This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.
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The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.
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Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance
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Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.
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I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.
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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
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Please also remember the pitiful gasping/thirsty little mouths/ beaks in summer. They'll appreciate abundant/fresh/cool/clean/ water! Food they can get easily in parks/sidewalks!
