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A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike.
Jeffrey Kluger
Likely
Because
Quicker
Deny
Than
Dislike
Less
Cockroach
Species
Butterfly
Consciousness
We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has to be outside, because we're inside. God forbid something like a cockroach comes inside, or some dust.
Diane Ackerman
God
Nature
Try
Build
Dust
Ourselves
Inside
Some
Something
More
More And More
Outside
Like
Forbid
Houses
Because
Always
Exile
Dismiss
Cockroach
Once I was walking with teammate Joy Fawcett in a hotel in Haiti. We were barefoot, and the lights went out to save electricity. Joy felt something crunch beneath her feet, and she felt the need to shine her flashlight on the floor. It was, I swear, a five-foot cockroach.
Julie Foudy
Joy
Shine
Barefoot
Beneath
Once
Out
Something
Hotel
Crunch
Lights
Feet
Haiti
She
Felt
Were
Walking
Swear
Electricity
Teammate
Cockroach
Floor
Her
Need
Save
The Alien is gross, scary. There is something in a human being that looks at them and sees it as a cockroach. You can never feel nurturing towards the cockroach.
Sanaa Lathan
You
Human Being
Alien
Nurturing
Scary
Something
Sees
Never
Feel
Towards
Looks
Human
Being
Them
Gross
Cockroach
You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have been completely unimportant; that in the great sum of things, all a man's endless grapplings are no more significant than the scuttlings of a cockroach.
Sebastian Horsley
Life
Good
Great
You
Man
Evil
Sum
Back
Significant
Admit
More
Look
Accept
Been
Than
Endless
May
Far
Unimportant
Your
Cockroach
Harder
Things
If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach.
Willie Davis
Life
You
People
Back
Step
Come
Going
Cockroach
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