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  • We agree with many hunters that it is plain wrong to shoot animals confined in pens for the sake of a trophy -- often tame animals who have been hand-fed.

    Wayne Pacelle: Arizona, California, Missouri and North Dakota Voters: Animals Need You Wayne Pacelle 2010

  • And he often complained to aides about their gullibility for story lines hand-fed to them by the campaigns, which revealed an intellectual laziness that would not be tolerated in other professions.

    O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

  • Hundreds of fans of Knut the polar bear flocked to his enclosure at Berlin's zoo to mourn the sudden death of the celebrity who burst into the limelight as a cuddly, fluffy cub hand-fed by his keeper.

    World Watch 2011

  • We agree with many hunters that it is plain wrong to shoot animals confined in pens for the sake of a trophy -- often tame animals who have been hand-fed.

    Wayne Pacelle: Arizona, California, Missouri and North Dakota Voters: Animals Need You Wayne Pacelle 2010

  • Hundreds of fans of Knut the polar bear flocked to his zoo enclosure to mourn the sudden death of the four-year-old celebrity who burst into the limelight as a cuddly, fluffy cub hand-fed by his keeper.

    Berlin's Famous Bear 2011

  • And he often complained to aides about their gullibility for story lines hand-fed to them by the campaigns, which revealed an intellectual laziness that would not be tolerated in other professions.

    O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

  • And he often complained to aides about their gullibility for story lines hand-fed to them by the campaigns, which revealed an intellectual laziness that would not be tolerated in other professions.

    O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

  • And he often complained to aides about their gullibility for story lines hand-fed to them by the campaigns, which revealed an intellectual laziness that would not be tolerated in other professions.

    O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

  • And he often complained to aides about their gullibility for story lines hand-fed to them by the campaigns, which revealed an intellectual laziness that would not be tolerated in other professions.

    O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

  • Born and bred within this iron prison of the mind, never knowing Allah, they are as animals kept in a zoo, constrained by moats, ravines, and fences, hand-fed their kills, without ever recognizing their imprisonment.

    The Parable of the Spider darkerblogistan 2009

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