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«We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves»
Author: Arnold Toynbee
(Historian)
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breeding, domesticate, domesticated, planned, rabbit, unplanned
«That in man wich cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.»
«Those who marry God can become domesticated too / it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word ''Love'' means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and ''Ave Maria '' like ''dearest'' is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world's marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves / it was God's taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night.»
Author: Graham Greene
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Ave, Ave Maria, ceremony, common touch, dearest, domesticate, domesticated, drum, formal, hold dear, Marriages, marriage ceremony, opening ceremony, open letter, Saturday, stated, tastes, worshipped
«And not only did he learn by experience, but instincts long dead became alive again. The domesticated generations fell from him. In vague ways he remembered back to the youth of the breed, to the time the wild dogs ranged in packs through the primeval forest and killed their meat as they ran it down.»
Author: Jack London
(Novelist, Writer)
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breed, domesticate, domesticated, forest, instincts, packs, primeval, ran, ranged, remembered, The Wild, vague, wild dog
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