If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the brilliant humans who invented it to communicate high-level abstract thoughts. What's unique about language is that the creatures who develop it are highly vulnerable to being eaten.

Temple Grandin

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I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, "I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer.

David Sedaris

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Platypus? I thought it was pronounced platymapus. Has it always been pronounced platypus?

Jessica Simpson

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People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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If frogs had side pockets, they'd carry hand guns.

Dan Rather

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Man is the cruelest animal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Look, PETA! If God hadn't wanted us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them so darn tasty!

Stephen Colbert

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I could end this with a moral,
as if this were a fable about animals,
though no fables are really about animals.

Margaret Atwood

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Four legs good, two legs bad.

George Orwell

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A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

Robert Benchley

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