“ Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. ”
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“ Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. ”
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“ Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia. ”
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“ Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. ”
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“ When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman. ”
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“ A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour. ”
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“ Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. ”
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“ Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is. ”
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“ The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February. ”
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“ Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most. ”
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“ Both the cockroach and the bird could get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most. ”
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“ Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies. ”
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“ Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned. ”
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“ What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants. ”
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“ Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned. ”
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“ A book unlike a television program, moving picture or any other modern means of communication can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed. ”
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“ As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines. ”
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“ Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned. ”
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“ Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies. ”
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“ Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery. ”
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“ Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is. ”
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“ Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery. ”
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“ Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. ”
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“ Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia. ”
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“ Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm. ”
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