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• I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
  -- Thoreau...
• Two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it.
  the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it. -- Thomas Love Peacock...
• All human race, from China to Peru, Pleasure, howe'er disguis'd by art, pursue.
  -- Thomas Warton (1728-1790) -- Universal Love of Pleasure...
• In the race for love, I was scratched.
• If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing
  and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination....
• If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing
  and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination....
• I thought he was one of the human race - but he is not.
• If science were explained to the average person in a way that is accessible and exciting, there would be no room for pseudoscience.
  But there is a kind of Gresham's Law by which in popular culture the bad science drives out the good....