Mitch Harding:
CLASS OF 1995
Texas Academy of Math & ScienceClass of 1995
Denton, TX
Mitch's Story
Mitch is from Austin, Texas. Mitch's schools include Texas Academy of Math & Science. Mitch later attended The University of Texas at Austin (Philosophy, Computer Science, Mathematics). Mitch works(ed) at IBM.
Mitch's interests include Boardgames, Days of Wonder, Euler's identity. Music Mitch likes includes Bi Bi Bituaya, The Mountain Goats, Battlefield Vietnam. Books Mitch likes include Kazuo Ishiguro, Ender's Game, Mark Z. Danielewski. Movies Mitch likes include Memento, Memento, Night Of The Living Dead. TV shows Mitch likes include Parks and Recreation, Bob's Burgers, Portlandia.
One of Mitch's favorite quotes is:""In fact, if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of people are unkind to animals, especially in the name of commerce, the cruelty is condoned and, once large sums of money are at stake, will be defended to the last by otherwise intelligent people."
- Ruth Harrison, author of Animal Machines
“I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.”
- Gandhi
"A human can be healthy without killing animals for food. Therefore if he eats meat he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite."
- Leo Tolstoy
"The merit of charity is so great that I am happy to give to 100 beggars even if only one might actually be needy. Some people, however, act as if they are exempt from giving charity to 100 beggars in the event that one might be a fraud."
- Rabbi Chaim of Sanz
"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
- Elie Wiesel
"Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?”
- Jeremy Bentham
"Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple."
- Barry Switzer
"A man said to the universe:
'Sir, I exist!'
'However,' replied the universe,
'The fact has not created in me
a sense of obligation.'"
- Stephen Crane
"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Baseball is the most important thing in life that doesn't matter."
- Robert B Parker
"We are all born mad. Some remain s...Expand for more
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- Samuel Beckett
"Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made."
- John Berryman
"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."
- Nelson Henderson
"Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it."
- Milan Kundera
"There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man."
- Edgar Allen Poe
"I often feel that my life would be much easier if I were allowed to pass out scripts to the main characters occasionally"
- Unknown
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
- Gandhi
“Various philosophers and religious leaders tried to convince their disciples and followers that animals are nothing more than machines without a soul, without feelings. However, anyone who has ever lived with an animal--be it a dog, a bird, or even a mouse--knows that this theory is a brazen lie, invented to justify cruelty.”
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."
- Timothy Leary
"Easy is an adjective used to describe a woman who has the sexual morals of a man."
- Nancy Linn-Desmond
"Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too."
- Will Rogers
"Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions."
- Aldous Huxley
"Saying 'Eating animals is yummy' as justification for killing them is pretty much the same argument as saying rape is okay since it feels good to the rapist. Civilized people require more than sensory pleasure to justify behaviors."
- Atheists and Rational Thinkers
"There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery."
- Charles Darwin".
More about Mitch:"If we have something in common, if you think we'd get along, or if you just want to see a lot of cat photos, then feel free to send me a friend request, even if we don't know one another! Seriously. One doesn't get this many friends by actually knowing them all in person!
I am a vegan, curmudgeonly, cat-owning, softball-playing bookworm. I'm just an animal looking for a home.
Play me on Words With Friends -- my username is mitcharf. I also play Hanging With Friends and Scramble With Friends under the same username.".
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