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Related The words you can’t find, you borrow.GABRIELLE ZEVIN RALPH WALDO EMERSON Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD We work with zoos and other wildlife centers in cooperative programs. BRUCE WILLIAMS KILROY J. OLDSTER Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused anim... SAM SIMON WENDY MASS Like all animals, human beings have always taken what they want from nature. But we are the rogue sp... EDWARD BURTYNSKY If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... We are responsible for ourselves and each other. RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO JAMES HANSEN Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories BEN OAK DOUGLAS COUPLAND Attention to our duties provides far greater rewards than beauty and wit. Self-control is what diffe... LAURA MONCUR MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA FRANS DE WAAL Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever... CRAIG CLEVENGER BLAISE PASCAL TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS Clearly, we are a species that is well connected to other species. Whether or not we evolve from the... GEORGE M. CHURCH In life, we spend most of our time searching for what we already have. VIKRANT PARSAI CRAIG GROESCHEL CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER EDWARD O. WILSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON LAUREN We are concerned. They are competing with other animals for food, space, burrows, crevices and rocks... SKIP SNOW MELANIE JOY 29. Most loneliness results from insulation rather than isolation. In other words, we are lonely bec... JAMES C. DOBSON Our process is we want to develop parks for the people and by the people. CONNIE EDMONSTON THOMAS MANN BLAISE PASCAL LAILAH GIFTY AKITA In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id... GARY F EVANS... makes no sense to harm other endangered species in the process. BRIAN SCHWEITZER GRAY SCOTT MICHAEL J. FOX I have reached zero tolerance for the cruelty against our animal brothers. If we are to nuture our ... RIKI ROCKETT Part of managing Alberta's parks and recreation areas is ensuring the proper enforcement tools are i... GARY MAR LYDIA MILLET We need to have a whole system (of parks) working together instead of a patchwork of individual park... DWIGHT JOHNSON MICHIO KAKU I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f... ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van... SATHESH KUMAR M GEORGE ELIOT GEORGE ELIOT STEPHEN CHBOSKY Humans are the only animals on earth that have done nothing to improve our planet. We are the only a... BOBBY W. MILLER I've had a love of animals from birth. I love getting to know other species. We should all be aw... TIPPI HEDREN BUZZ ALDRIN A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminde... HARRY LORAYNE When we aren't honest with ourselves about who we are and what we want, we allow other people and ci... CORTNEY S. WARREN DOUGLAS COUPLAND We have seen this kind of thing in other galaxies, but it?s very remarkable for the Milky Way. JOE SHIELDS There are several ways we can know what a dog, a bird or, indeed, any other organism can see, for ex... TIM BIRKHEAD Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever. SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON YASSER ARAFAT JULES RENARD JULES RENARD SIGMUND FREUD ALAIN DE BOTTON JOHN TRAVOLTA When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become ... MARGARET WHEATLEY JON KABAT-ZINN Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of ex... HERBERT W. BOYER Only about 3 percent of animal species are monogamous. A couple of penguins, some otters and a few o... OLIVER MARKUS ELAYNE BOOSLER Could it be possible for humanity to put their differences aside for the survival of our species, un... GARY F EVANS... I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understa... JOHN DENVER THICH NHAT HANH JONATHAN SWIFT JENNIFER ELISABETH Only the most arrogant, shortsighted, and spiritually bereft of our species would say that, at any c... TIMOTHY WALKER EDITH WIDDER Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we manage... BARBARA CASTLE We don’t vanish without a trace. We are not like animals, content with burrows in the ground. We a... JENNIFER ARNETT ARTHUR BLANK When we use power and group identity, we hold ourselves separate from other groups of people, and de... YASMIN DAVAR We want to keep our brand identity, even in that low end of the market. We want differentiation in d... JUHA PARK HENRY CLOUD To loveres our theree...DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS Human were born late in life, that’s why still learning from other species DR.MOHAMMED FAIG ABAD ALRAZAK DANIEL J. BOORSTIN DANIEL J. BOORSTIN DAVID IGE YUVAL NOAH HARARI As a result of our experiments, we conclude that the babies are showing an internal representation o... ELIZABETH BRANNON DONELLA MEADOWS I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis:... a hominid that takes di... JUAN ENRIQUEZ C.S. LEWIS In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other ... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS Anyone can learn how to communicate with animals if they are open to the process and willing to prac... KAREN A. ANDERSON PAUL AUSTER ANUPAM KHER CRAIG GROESCHEL People love giraffes. There are plenty of zoos out there who want giraffes. People expect to see tho... PHIL COLEMAN CRAIG GROESCHEL BILL CLINTON I think this is a pretty huge step. We have essentially been operating on the original-design signal... ALLAN BALLENGER
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ALAN ACKERMAN Inflation appears to be muted, ALAN ACKERMAN We're beginning to come out of a recession. It's now a matter of just how meaningfully the economy c... ALAN ACKERMAN Investors are being cautiously optimistic. There's a desire to put money back into the market based ... ALAN ACKERMAN the expectation is there will be a fairly strong stream of earnings disappointments in the second qu... ALAN ACKERMAN We're still early in the game. I think what we saw was a rally that we've seen before over the last ... ALAN ACKERMAN [They have] bright management, they are cost conscious, they're lowering the costs all the time. The... ALAN ACKERMAN It gave sellers a chance to lighten up a bit, ... On balance, this just appears to be investors taki... ALAN ACKERMAN This has been an amazing market -- a 'Benny Goodman' market with plenty of swing, ... My sense is mo... ALAN ACKERMAN This has been a Benny Goodman-type market, ... lots of swing, and it's very, very difficult to get a... ALAN ACKERMAN GARY ACKERMAN GARY ACKERMAN GARY ACKERMAN GARY ACKERMAN GARY ACKERMAN GARY ACKERMAN GARY ACKERMAN GARY ACKERMAN GARY ACKERMAN GARY ACKERMAN GARY ACKERMAN GARY ACKERMAN GARY ACKERMAN GARY ACKERMAN GARY ACKERMAN GARY ACKERMAN GARY ACKERMAN GARY ACKERMAN GARY ACKERMAN My war buddies, some were Americans, but some were Afghans. These were the guys that I fought alongs... ELLIOT ACKERMAN GARY ACKERMAN GARY ACKERMAN GARY ACKERMAN In media coverage of the war, Afghans are often characterized as corrupt and deceitful. There has ce... ELLIOT ACKERMAN GARY ACKERMAN GARY ACKERMAN GARY ACKERMAN GARY ACKERMAN GARY ACKERMAN GARY ACKERMAN GARY ACKERMAN GARY ACKERMAN We pulled it out. It's too hard to handle that whole thing right now. DICK ACKERMAN We have a draft of the proposals in hand which we're going through. A vote this week is possible, bu... DICK ACKERMAN It's overreaching on many levels. DICK ACKERMAN The environmental concerns for the entire project have been met up front. DICK ACKERMAN During my most recent visit two weeks ago, I was struck by the destruction that still remains. DUANE ACKERMAN This was the right time for this merger. This combination is good for our employees, our customers a... DUANE ACKERMAN Technology changes and convergence are shaping a new competitive dynamic and creating tremendous opp... DUANE ACKERMAN Valencia has done an excellent job of building and guiding a very thoughtful and effective diversity... DUANE ACKERMAN BellSouth is delivering solid revenue growth and strong earnings growth. BellSouth's earnings for th... DUANE ACKERMAN Our customers have told us that they want access to high-speed data services. Through expanded deplo... DUANE ACKERMAN Reducing workforce is the toughest business decision a company has to make. We have worked hard to a... DUANE ACKERMAN We're generating solid growth across all areas of our business. Our core telecommunications business... DUANE ACKERMAN The investments we're making, and the way we're executing our growth strategies, continue to pay off... DUANE ACKERMAN Results for the quarter remained strong despite extraordinary challenges we faced with Hurricane Kat... DUANE ACKERMAN In a mite game, there are kids who will never touch the puck in a game. That won't happen here. MIKE ACKERMAN We played solid up and down the field. Our defense recorded their fifth shutout of the season. Stewa... MIKE ACKERMAN Joey jumping up about eight feet and heading that one in was a great effort. He was just busting to ... MIKE ACKERMAN We gave a better effort in the second half and put the ball on net much better today. MIKE ACKERMAN We started to do a lot of the things today that we've been working on. We need to continue to do tho... MIKE ACKERMAN After the first 15 minutes we settled down and started to pass the ball and play well. MIKE ACKERMAN We played well together as a team. MIKE ACKERMAN I thought the team started out strong for their first game. I hope it will keep going from here. MIKE ACKERMAN We need to start playing better as a team. Everyone has to give more effort, not just when we are be... MIKE ACKERMAN Our sweeper Alex Tucker really stood out in the back field and Derek Graham played his best game of ... MIKE ACKERMAN Last year, we were sued for endorsing religion; this year, we're being sued for limiting the right t... RICHARD ACKERMAN If you believe in discrimination, this is a great day for discrimination and bigotry. RICHARD ACKERMAN There's no established law on this issue. It's very likely this will be a precedent-setting case. RICHARD ACKERMAN I have a First Amendment right to state what my political views are. RICHARD ACKERMAN We're trying to navigate those waters right now. If the court would tell us what we can do, we'd do ... RICHARD ACKERMAN Last year, we were sued for endorsing religion; this year, we're being sued for limiting the right t... RICHARD ACKERMAN Our case is going full-steam ahead to rescue the vote of 4.6 million Californians from Mayor Gavin N... RICHARD ACKERMAN Some people want as much access to free speech as possible; others don't want religion endorsed in t... RICHARD ACKERMAN GARY ACKERMAN Next week will be very tense, full of sadness and recollections about Sept. 11 ... Prudent investors... ALAN ACKERMAN The jobs number was fuzzy, even though on balance it helped to perk up the market, ... Based on that... ALAN ACKERMAN One more solid salvo from the Fed, combined with a tax cut, could be the combustible combination to ... ALAN ACKERMAN The great thing about having a team that's this talented and being with them for three years, we're ... BRAD ACKERMAN That was exactly what I wanted. I wanted the ball in his hands at that moment. He got healthy at the... BILL ACKERMAN But we haven't seen a negative impact. It's going well and we're very optimistic that the impacts ar... ANDY ACKERMAN We have seen no impact on fish, no impact on wildlife. We are really monitoring such things as the c... ANDY ACKERMAN The market is sloppy and choppy. This is earnings season. We're going to have a mixed bag. ALAN ACKERMAN I think it's a constructive move. He's an experienced hand who is clearly effective in dealing with ... ALAN ACKERMAN My sense is that an earnings recovery is further away than expected and there is no immediate cataly... ALAN ACKERMAN She really was the perfect choice to lead our team on the court for the next three years. She has pr... VAL ACKERMAN We are very proud to unite the best of professional and college basketball as we look to reclaim our... VAL ACKERMAN Our senior men's program will be tremendously served by Mike's extraordinary capabilities and statur... VAL ACKERMAN It's been a long road, VAL ACKERMAN We've got a business plan that's very specific, VAL ACKERMAN We realize the gravity of the situation, ... Everybody concerned wants to see the U.S. back on top a... VAL ACKERMAN She did it all this year with the poise of a veteran and class, ... It's hard to imagine a player wh... VAL ACKERMAN There's every reason to be hopeful because it's a product that's good, and we have a distinctive aud... VAL ACKERMAN This is our most competitive season ever. I'm sure it will end with a bang. With all the strong perf... VAL ACKERMAN We're still three-to-four weeks away from second-quarter earnings reports and there's nothing really... ALAN ACKERMAN I didn't know they were moving up when I committed. But I'm real excited about the higher level of c... RACHAEL ACKERMAN I'm real excited about this opportunity. Every high school athlete dreams of this. RACHAEL ACKERMAN I never thought about missing either. It was an honor to be picked in the all-star game and I wanted... RACHAEL ACKERMAN I think we'll be able to out-run them and control the pace. I just think we are faster than they are... RACHAEL ACKERMAN That was definitely satisfying. They're going to be looking for revenge. We want them to know that w... RACHAEL ACKERMAN I know I didn't have a lot of energy and my shot was off. I felt better as the game went on. This ga... RACHAEL ACKERMAN We just knew we needed to be more focused on winning this tournament. Tattnall played a good game ag... RACHAEL ACKERMAN We aren't taking anything for granted. We'll take every game one at a time and try to win another ch... RACHAEL ACKERMAN We weren't mentally prepared to play in the first half. We had our wake-up call. We haven't had many... RACHAEL ACKERMAN That's Lauren Spillers. She's non-stop hustle up and down the court. RACHAEL ACKERMAN We are clearly in a consolidation, whether we are in a correction or not remains to be seen, ALAN ACKERMAN Enron's quick collapse touched off more aggressiveness by regulators and prompted them to dig more d... ALAN ACKERMAN The world is looking for lower interest rates. Clearly, the psychology world-wide remains highly ner... ALAN ACKERMAN Even if a trading halt were put in, it might be 'something to do about nothing,' ... This is an orde... ALAN ACKERMAN This is a senior-heavy team that has high expectations. BRAD ACKERMAN GARY ACKERMAN GARY ACKERMAN GARY ACKERMAN This market is somewhat difficult to call. ALAN ACKERMAN “The most beautiful creations are from the blueprints of the mind.” JACK ACKERMAN [The U.S. Treasury auction schedule, which continues Wednesday with the sale of five-year notes,] is... ALAN ACKERMAN It is quite good. I looked at it and liked it and even bought a copy. BILL ACKERMAN
The words you can’t find, you borrow.
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A person experiments in life and reflects upon those events in order to discover how to lead a meani... 
We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could ... 
What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear mor... 
It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ... 
Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves … and other animals... 
Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test t... 
We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people... 
What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of dis... 
We are far from perfect but willing to be different. 
To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns w... 
Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we identify... 
Me, to my husband while searching for my keys and wallet the other morning: "Jake, we spend half our... 
We send one species to the butcher and give our love and kindness to another apparently for no reaso... 
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. 
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. 
Life is meant to be shared. We need each other. 
These machines are going to reflect our species and our evolutionary process. Everything we are will... 
Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural ha... 
I worry about the very pernicious way we elevate and separate ourselves from other beasts, the way w... 
We're in 'Jurassic Park' territory. If we go to the zoo in the future, we'll have zo... 
What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great cal... 
What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great c... 
So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... 
There may be aliens in our Milky Way galaxy, and there are billions of other galaxies. The probabili... 
In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in se... 
We have no other alternative. And in spite of all the difficulties we are facing, we have one altern... 
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries. 
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries 
We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay ... 
We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t al... 
I have to believe there's some other life force out there. I don't know in what form. But we can't h... 
It is what makes us human, what distinguishes us from other animals. We can be aware of being aware. 
We have wild animals in zoos, yet people rarely meet their 'food' face to face. 
We have to look deeply to see how we grow our food, so we can eat in ways that preserve our collecti... 
Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by... 
Even if we try to conform to ideals and strive for perfection, we will always be pulled back to our ... 
If we are to be good stewards of the ocean, we need to understand what lives there and how the anima... 
We want to begin the process of searching for a new head coach in a thorough and honest manner, 
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We read advertisements to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready -- even eager -- to ... 
We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to... 
We have more endangered species here in our islands than any other state in the country. 
No investigation of our divine future can ignore our own animal past, or our relations with other an... 
I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. ... 
Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts. 
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In day-to-day life, our brain sends lots of signals. In acting, there are no signals. You have to be... 
If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. 
That whether you are British, American or some other nationality, the No 1 task is to move from inte... 
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. 
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I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to ha... 
Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public. 
Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the r...