"Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite"
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"The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash. We get seduced by our own mantras (I'm a failure I'm lonely I'm a failure I'm lonely) and we become monuments to them. To stop talking for a while, then, is to attempt to strip away the power of words, to stop choking ourselves with words, to liberate ourselves from our suffocating mantras."
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"Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses."
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"Dogs are high on life. Cats need catnip."
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"You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go."
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"Kids have little computer bodies with disks that store information. They remember who had to do the dishes the last time you had spaghetti, who lost the knob off the TV set six years ago, who got punished for teasing the dog when he wasn't teasing the dog and who had to wear girls boots the last time it snowed."
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"When you leave them in the morning, they stick their nose in the door crack and stand there like a portrait until you turn the key eight hours later."
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"In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason."
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"The expression working like a dog dates back to a time in America when men would rise early, then lie around all day and lick their balls."
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"If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain."
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"Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them."
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"The friendship of a dog is precious. It becomes even more so when one is so far removed from home.... I have a Scottie. In him I find consolation and diversion... he is the "one person" to whom I can talk without the conversation coming back to war."
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"little sun little moon little dog and a little to eat and a little to love and a little to live for in a little room filled with little mice who gnaw and dance and run while I sleep waiting for a little death in the middle of a little morning in a little city in a little state my little mother dead my little father dead in a little cemetery somewhere. I have only a little time to tell you this: watch out for little death when he comes running but like all the billions of little deaths it will finally mean nothing and everything: all your little tears burning like the dove, wasted."
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"So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and habits, general intelligence, courage, bad and good tempers. etc., are certainly transmitted."
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"The physical thing of having a man following you around all day trying to take your photograph - it's eerie. There is a pure physical response. If you go up and kick a dog, it will bite you. But with photographers, you can't do that."
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"Have you ever seen a one trick pony in the field so happy and free? If you've ever seen a one trick pony then you've seen me Have you ever seen a one-legged dog making his way down the street? If you've ever seen a one-legged dog then you've seen me."
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"If I stay in Washington for more than 72 hours, I have to bathe myself in the same stuff I use when my dog gets into a fight with a skunk."
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"Experts are just trained dogs."
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"In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for 12 months."
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"One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks."
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