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• Por lo tanto, no tienen conciencia. ¿Por lo tanto qué? ¿Por lo tanto somos libres de usarlos para nuestros propios fines? ¿Por lo tanto somos libres de matarlos? ¿Por qué? ¿Qué tiene de especial la forma de conciencia que reconocemos para que matar a un portador de ella sea un crimen mientras que matar a un animal queda impune?... toda esta discusión sobre la conciencia y si los animales la tienen es sólo una cortina de humo. En el fondo protegemos a los de nuestra especie. Pulgares arriba para los bebés humanos, pulgares abajo para los terneros.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Baby, Animal, Thumbs Down

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• In some parallel universe, there was a Gansey who could tell Blue that he found the ten inches of her bare calves far more tantalizing than the thirteen cubic feet of bare skin Orla sported. But in this universe, that was Adam’s job. He was in a terrible mood.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Jobs, Blue, Feet

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• Sean takes my ponytail in his hand, his fingers touching my neck, and then he tucks my hair into my collar out of the reach of the wind. He avoids my gaze. Then he links his arm back around me and pushes his calf into Corr's side.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Hair, Hands, Wind

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• ...and we have so far improved upon the custom of Adam and Eve, that we generally furnish forth our feasts with a portion of some delicate calf or lamb, whose unspotted innocence entitles them to the happiness of becoming our sustenance.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Animal, Humanity, Lambs

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Nicholas R. Lawrence, Marta L. Werner (2005). “Ordinary Mysteries: The Common Journal of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne, 1842-1843”, p.7, American Philosophical Society

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• What do you want?" Sophronia was moved to exasperation. "Me? Stockings and breeches to come back in fashion. I do miss seeing a man's calves.

  Gail Carriger

  Fashion, Men, Missing

  Gail Carriger (2016). “The Finishing School Complete Collection”, p.461, Hachette UK

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• Take one more step and I'll put an arrow through you." Will tried to model his voice on the quiet, threatening tone Halt had used. He had retrieved several of his arrows from the nearest target and now he had one of them ready, laid on the bowstring. Halt glanced around approvingly. "Good idea," he said. "Aim for the left calf. It's a very painful wound.

  John Flanagan

  Ideas, Voice, Arrows

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• An atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor or Baal or the golden calf. We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

  Richard Dawkins

  Dios, cristiano, ateo

  "Militant Atheism". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2002.

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• To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada, while continuing to eat eggs from hens who have spent their lives crammed into cages, or veal from calves who have been deprived of their mothers, their proper diet, and the freedom to lie down with their legs extended, is like denouncing apertheid in South Africa while asking your neighbors not to sell their houses to blacks.

  Peter Singer

  Mother, Dog, Baby

  "Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals". Book by Peter Singer, 1975.

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• You are my siren,” he said, running his hands along her thighs and down her calves, feeling the shape of her even as the silk of her gown kept them both from what they wanted. “My temptress . . . my sorceress . . . I cannot resist you, no matter how I try. You threaten to send me over the edge.

  Sarah MacLean

  Running, Hands, Feelings

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• El juego existe por sí mismo. El juego es para el momento; no tiene prisa, incluso cuando el ritmo es rápido y el tiempo parece importante. Cuando jugamos, también celebramos la santa inutilidad. Como el ternero que retoza en el prado, no necesitamos pretensiones ni excusas. El trabajo es productivo; el juego, en su desinterés y olvido de sí mismo, puede ser fructífero.

  Margaret Guenther

  Diversión, Ser, Jugar

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• I'm feeling alright, I am pretty happy with it. I was trying to catch her, around 37k my calf started to cramp on me a little so I had to make sure to run smart so I didn't completely cramp up. When the Aussie caught me I figured my medal contention might be up but I ended up catching 4th.

  Lanni Marchant

  Running, Smart, Feelings

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• For every child of an illegal immigrant who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert (http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/12/steve-king-still-stands-by-cantaloupe-comments/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0).

  Michael C. Burgess

  Kings, Children, Marijuana

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• I cannot see the short, white curls
  Upon the forehead of an Ox,
  But what I see them dripping with
  That poor thing's blood, and hear the ax;
  When I see calves and lambs, I see
  Them led to death; I see no bird
  Or rabbit cross the open field
  But what a sudden shot is heard;
  A shout that tells me men aim true,
  For death or wound, doth chill me through.

  W. H. Davies

  Men, Animal, Blood

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• Writing wasn't easy to start. After I finally did it, I realized it was the most direct contact possible with the part of myself I thought I had lost, and which I constantly find new things from. Writing also includes the possibility of living many lives as well as living in any time or world possible. I can satisfy my enthusiasm for research, but jump like a calf outside the strict boundaries of science. I can speak about things that are important to me and somebody listens. It's wonderful!

  Virpi Hameen-Anttila

  Writing, Important, Research

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• No puedo ver los rizos cortos y blancos sobre la frente de un buey, pero los veo gotear con la sangre de esa pobre criatura, y oigo el hacha; cuando veo terneros y corderos, los veo llevados a la muerte; no veo ningún pájaro o conejo cruzar el campo abierto, pero oigo un disparo repentino; un grito que me dice que los hombres apuntan con certeza, para matar o herir, me deja helado. W.H. Davies He estado estudiando los rasgos y disposiciones de los "animales inferiores" (así llamados) y contrastándolos con los rasgos y disposiciones del hombre. El resultado me parece humillante.

  Mark Twain

  Animal, Men, Blood

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• Go into the largest livestock operation, search out the darkest and tiniest stall or pen, single out the filthiest, most forlorn little lamb or pig or calf, and that is one of God's creatures you're looking at, morally indistinguishable from your beloved Fluffy or Frisky.

  Matthew Scully

  Pigs, Lambs, Littles

  Matthew Scully (2003). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.44, Macmillan

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• I directed a movie back in the '90s which had calf roping in it, and I got into it quite a bit back then.

  Dennis Quaid

  Bits

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• I’m beginning to sense a theme,” Mircea said, tossing his suit coat over a buckskin-covered chair. A moose head with huge, outspread antlers loomed over it, its bright glass eyes looking oddly lifelike in the low light. Mircea took in the room, his expression slightly repulsed yet fascinated. “I believe there is only one thing to say at this point.” What’s that?” Yee haw,” he said gravely, and took me down like a rodeo calf.

  Karen Chance

  Believe, Eye, Glasses

  Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.1317, Penguin

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• Any objection to the carryings on of our present gold-calf Christianity is met with the triumphant reply, ‘But we are winning them!’ Winning them to what? To true discipleship? To cross-carrying? To self-denial? To separation from the world? To crucifixion of the flesh? To holy living? To hard self-discipline ? To love for God? To total committal to Christ? Of course the answer to all these questions is...No.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Winning, Self, Discipline

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• ...la existencia se ha convertido en una danza irracional y salvaje en torno al becerro de oro, una loca adoración del Dios Mammon. En esa danza y en esa adoración, el hombre ha sacrificado todas sus mejores cualidades del corazón y del alma: la bondad y la justicia, el honor y la hombría, la compasión y la simpatía por el prójimo.

  Alexander Berkman

  Money, Kindness, Heart

  Alexander Berkman (2010). “Now and After: the ABC of Anarchist Communism”, p.22, Lulu.com

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• To me it appears strange that the men against whom I should be enabled to bring an action for laying a little dirt at my door, may with impunity drive by it half-a-dozen calves, with their tails lopped close to their bodies and their hinder parts covered with blood.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Doors, Blood

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• You know the Ark of Israel and the calf of Belial were both made of gold. Religion has never yet changed the metal of her one adoration.

  Ouida

  Israel, Gold, Ark

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• Now we'd known each other for two years, the side of my calf was touching his shins, and his stomach was against my ribs. He said, "I don't think it's end of world to be my girlfriend." I opened my mouth, but nothing came out. It took seven languages to make me; it would be nice if I could have spoken just one.

  Nicole Krauss

  Girlfriend, Nice, Thinking

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• All artists are two-headed calves.

  Truman Capote

  Art, Artist, Two

  Lawrence Grobel, Truman Capote (1986). "Conversaciones con Capote", Plume

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• Radar acelera el motor como diciendo que nos demos prisa, y corremos por el aparcamiento, la bata de Ben ondeando al viento de modo que parece vagamente un mago oscuro, salvo que se le ven las piernas pálidas y flacas, y sus brazos abrazan bolsas de plástico. Puedo ver la parte trasera de las piernas de Lacey bajo su vestido, sus pantorrillas apretadas en plena zancada. No sé cómo me veo, pero sé cómo me siento: Joven. Ridícula. Infinito.

  John Green

  Correr, Oscuridad, Viento

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