"A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a general way, prefer a woman to a man."
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"Meow” means “woof” in cat."
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"A screenwriter is much like being a fire hydrant with a bunch of dogs lined up around it."
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"We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of other nations far away. We have learned that we must live as men, not as ostriches, nor as dogs in the manger."
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"I like dogs better than knights. A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he'll look you straight in the face. He cupped her under the jaw, raising her chin, his fingers pinchingher painfully. And that's more than little birds can do, isn't it? I never got my song."
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"Well it's true, ever since I stopped eating meat I feel a lot better among animals, I feel I can be much more honest when I pat a dog."
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"It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being."
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"The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs."
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"This alpha dog is not going to take it lying down next time."
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"Hell, the truth is that I was named after a dog!"
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"Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent."
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"When the Negro finds the courage to be free, he faces dogs and guns and clubs and fire hoses totally unafraid, and the white men with those dogs, guns, clubs and fire hoses see that the Negro they have traditionally called "boy" has become a man."
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"You may not agree, you may not care, but if you are holding this book you should know that of all the sights I love in this world — and there are plenty — very near the top of the list is this one: dogs without leashes."
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"No one can give anyone else the gift of the idyll; only an animal can do so, because only animals were not expelled from Paradise. The love between dog and man is idyllic. It knows no conflicts, no hair-raising scenes; it knows no development."
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"She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place."
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"If there is a heaven, it's certain our animals are to be there. Their lives become so interwoven with our own, it would take more than an archangel to detangle them."
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"I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps."
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"Because dogs and cats still live in the original state of connectedness with Being, they can help us regain it. When we do so, however, that original state deepens and turns into awareness."
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"Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?"
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"The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man."
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