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• My life closed twice before its close;
  It yet remains to see
  If Immortality unveil
  A third event to me,
  So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
  As these that twice befell.
  Parting is all we know of heaven,
  And all we need of hell.

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Encouragement, Heaven

  "My life closed twice before its close" l. 7 (unknown date)

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• Cats of good breed hunt better fat than lean.

  Benvenuto Cellini

  Cat, Fats, Hunts

  Benvenuto Cellini (1952). “Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini: a Florentine Artist”

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• I get home at the end of the day and I don't want to talk. All I want to do is lay on the floor and pet my dogs and my cats.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Dog, Cat, Home

  "Ellen Degeneres to freshen her talk show". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. September 2, 2006.

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• This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being able to do anything about it. Otherwise children would be nothing more than pets.

  Heather Armstrong

  Children, Kids, Motherhood

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• Turtles have always been my sigil, I suppose. When I was a kid, growing up in Bayonne, NJ, I lived in a federal housing project, and we were not allowed to have a dog or cats. The only pets I could have were turtles. So, I had an entire toy castle filled with dime-store turtles. I gave them all names, and since they were living in a toy castle, I decided they were all knights and kingsand I made up stories about how they killed each other and betrayed each other and fought for the kingdom. So, Game of Thrones, actually began with turtles. I decided later to recast it with actual human beings.

  George R. R. Martin

  Dog, Growing Up, Cat

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• I thought it would be lovely to use [pet bulldog] Noelle as an example to teach the importance of being who you are. For me it's important to inspire children in a positive way, and at times they understand more messages through entertainment than when one is talking to them directly.

  Gloria Estefan

  Children, Talking, Inspire

  Comment to The Associated Press regarding publication of her second children's book "Noelle's Treasure Tale", October 9, 2006.

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• The dog which remembers only to bark and not to bite, and is led through the streets as a lady's pet, is only a degenerate wolf.

  Lin Yutang

  Dog, Degenerates, Remember

  Yutang Lin (1939). “My country and my people”

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• I used to have lots of tigers. I had all sorts of exotic pets when I had some money. Before I was broke, I had everything. Pigeons and vultures, lions, tigers, and bears. I had it all.

  Mike Tyson

  Exotic, Lions, Pigeons

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• There is nothing, under present conditions, that can be more easily and exactly reproduced than a technically good black-and-white photograph, and it is utter rot to burden those interested in them with irrelevant biographical trivia and pet longwinded theory.

  Clarence John Laughlin

  Black And White, Trivia, Photograph

  Clarence John Laughlin, Lafcadio Hearn, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1973). “Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye”

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• Can a woman entertain a man and a pet at the same time? I say unto thee, one of the twain shall suffer jealousy.

  Gelett Burgess

  Women, Suffering, Thee

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• Fans believe they have a relationship with you, either through your TV character or, more reasonably, through the tweets you may have exchanged. In a way, you have gotten to know them. You learn about people's kids, families, pets.

  Gina Bellman

  Believe, Character, Kids

  "Gina Bellman on Leverage: 'Fandom is a world with no prejudice'". www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2013.

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• Millions of Americans own dogs, because they are good-natured, simple, and easily amused. I am referring here to the Americans. The dogs are not exactly Mensa members either, but they definitely make better pets than tropical fish.

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Simple, Rivers

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• If we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look away from, and not see, whatever might be dangerous to our pet theories. In this way it is only too easy to obtain what appears to be overwhelming evidence in favor of a theory which, if approached critically, would have been refuted.

  Karl Popper

  Looks, Favors, Want

  Karl Popper (2013). “The Poverty of Historicism”, p.124, Routledge

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• Mothers-in-law do not make good house pets. Once I had the most wonderful dream -- I dreamed that mothers-in-law cost money and I couldn't afford one.

  Phyllis Diller

  Mother, Dream, Law

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• Most fisherman, including this one, cling to their pet stupidities as they would to a battered briar or an old jacket; and their dogged persistence in wrong methods and general wrong-headedness finally wins the a sort of grudging admiration, if not many fish.

  John D. Voelker

  Winning, Persistence, Sea

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• It's like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Dog, Athlete

  "Jesse Owens: Champion Athlete". Book by Tony Gentry, Heather Lehr Wagner, 2009.

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• One of my pet theories is that readers have built-in BS detectors that enable them to recognize insincerity in writers. David [Halberstam] was sincerity to the core. He believed in what he wrote, and that conviction conveyed itself to readers.

  Jonathan Yardley

  Sincerity, Conviction, Theory

  "David Halberstam". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. April 24, 2007.

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• One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  One Day, Warning, Next

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.102, BookBaby

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• What is asserted by a man is an opinion; what is asserted by a woman is opinionated. A woman with ideas and the ability to express them is something of a social embarrassment, like an unhousebroken pet.

  Marya Mannes

  Men, Ideas, Opinion

  Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

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• Every thing, even the so-called timesaving device and energy-efficient machine, comes these days with an elaborate set of instructions for its care and feeding. Buying a machine has become more and more like buying a pet. ... We are time-crunched. Not just by the number of things we have to do, but the number of things we have. In the late twentieth century, things have become our new dependents.

  Ellen Goodman

  Numbers, Energy, Machines

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• Miracle is the pet child of faith.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, Miracle

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1859). “Faust: A Dramatic Poem”, p.51

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• Some of the wildest men make the best pets.

  Mae West

  Men

  "Fictional character: Ruby Carter". "Belle of the Nineties", www.imdb.com. 1934.

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• Every person is able to add beauty, whether by growing flowers, or singing, or cooking luscious meals, or raising sweet pets. Every part of life can be art.

  Cynthia Rylant

  Beauty, Sweet, Art

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• Truth, not a pet, is man's best friend.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Men

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• Indians still consider the whites a brutal people who treat their children like enemies - playthings, too, coddling them like pampered pets or fragile toys, but underneath always like enemies, enemies that must be restrained, bribed, spied upon, and punished. They believe that children so treated will grow up as dependent and immature as pets and toys, and as angry and dangerous as enemies within the family circle, to be appeased and fought.

  Mari Sandoz

  Children, Growing Up, Believe

  Mari Sandoz (1959). “Hostiles and Friendlies: Selected Short Writings of Mari Sandoz”, p.32, U of Nebraska Press

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