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• Man being in honour abideth not; he is like the beasts that perish.
  -- Old Testament -- Psalm xlix, 12, 20...
• There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
  -- Christian Nestell Bovee...
• I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts : financial worries. RENARD
• Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts. -- Plotinu
• The Bible is an opiate to keep the beasts of burden patient.
• Progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the bea
  God is, they are; Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be....
• There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book ii, Chap. xi, Of Cruelty...
• I was appalled by this story of the destruction of a member of a valued endangered species.
  It's all very well to celebrate the practicality of pigs by ennobling the porcine sibling who constructed his home out of bricks and mortar....