![[The taxidermist is] a historian, dealing with an animal's past; the zookeeper is a politician, dealing with an animal's present; and everyone else is a citizen who must decide on that animal's future (...) The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-taxidermist-is-a-historian-dealing-with-an-animals-past-the-zookeeper-is.jpg)
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What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide. William Shakespeare
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I remember my agent at ICM at the beginning of my career telling me that I wasn't pretty enough, that I was always going to be a quirky sidekick. And he was an ogre of a man. He should have been carrying a torch. If he was in a bar, he couldn't have come near me, and then he was deciding my fate. Whitney Cummings
fate elephants two
When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate. Sara Gruen
fate men important
It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. "If it is not, what is?" He could not endure those remembered words. Ursula K. Le Guin
fate done waste
Don't waste the breath to save your face, When you have done your best, And even more is asked of you, Let fate decide the rest. Robert Hunter
fate class maintenance
The historian assesses that the investment of the wealthy classes in the Bank of England wedded them to the fate of the nation as a whole and to the maintenance of its stability. Walter Russell Mead
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We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo. Vladimir Nabokov
fate past animal
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fate people mind
It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face. William Osler
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past years people
The economy is a ponzi scheme. People are working harder than they ever have for less wages, but we have so many bobbles because manufacturing has come up so quickly over the past hundred years that people have the illusion of wealth. Alex Jones
past judging dont-judge-me
Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible. Richelle Mead
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Judo taught me that I am capable of anything... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious. Ronda Rousey
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I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to where we are today. Sarah Palin
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