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They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

—Sir Philip Sidney

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

—Pearl Buck

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The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

—Mark Twain

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People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

—Margaret Cho

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To be an adult is to be alone.

—Jean Rostand

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When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?

—Epictetus

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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

—Dag Hammarskjöld

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Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

—Albert Schweitzer

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Animals have two functions in today's society: to be delicious and to fit well.

—Greg Proops

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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

—Mark Twain

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Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and "animals" is essential if we are to bend them to our will, wear them, eat them — without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret.

—Carl Sagan

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Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

—George Bernard Shaw

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Do fur-bearing animals feel joy and fear and sadness and excruciating pain and a sense of loss precisely as human beings do? I knew the answer, had known it all along but hidden it from myself. Yet a boy who spends his time wandering the woods — isn't he expected to bring something back, to justify his wanderings?

—Bill Hotchkiss

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When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

—Edward Abbey

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The more we learn of the true nature of nonhuman animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the more ethical concerns are raised regarding their use in the service of man — whether this be in entertainment, as "pets," for food, in research laboratories, or any of the other uses to which we subject them.

—Jane Goodall

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