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• Unfortunately, only a small number of patients with peptic ulcer are financially able to make a pet of an ulcer.

  William James Mayo

  Science, Small Numbers, Able

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• I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.

  Mike Rutherford

  Moving, Communication, Leaving

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• To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different.

  Ralph Boston

  Dog, Years, Kiev

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• And I strongly believe people should rescue dogs, or, at the very least, listen to Bob Barker and have your pet spayed or neutered.

  Justin Chambers

  Dog, Believe, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I always hated those classic kid movies like Old Yeller or The Yearling where the beloved pet dies. What would be so wrong with having those damn kids learn their lessons about mortality from watching Grandpa kick? Then at least the dog would be around to comfort them.

  Merrill Markoe

  Dog, Kids, Grandpa

  Merrill Markoe (2006). “Walking in Circles Before Lying Down: A Novel”, p.208, Villard

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• The desire to build a risk-free society has always been a sign of decadence. It has meant that the nation has given up, that it no longer believes in its destiny, that it has ceased to aspire to greatness, and has retired from history to pet itself.

  Henry Fairlie

  Believe, Greatness, Destiny

  "Paralysis in a Risk-Free Society" by Henry Fairlie, www.washingtonpost.com. July 22, 1979.

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• The dog has an enviable mind; it remembers the nice things in life and quickly blots out the nasty.

  Barbara Woodhouse

  Dog, Nice, Things In Life

  Barbara Woodhouse (1984). “No Bad Dogs: The Woodhouse Way”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Knowledge cannot be stolen from us. It cannot be bought or sold. We may be poor, and the sheriff may come and sell our furniture, or drive away our cow, or take our pet lamb, and leave us homeless and penniless; but he cannot lay the law's hand upon the jewelry of our minds.

  Elihu Burritt

  Knowledge, Hands, Law

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• I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a childrens author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.

  Rachel Corrie

  Mother, Teacher, Distance

  Rachel Corrie (2009). “Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie”, p.16, W. W. Norton & Company

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• My pet-sitting day ends around sunset, and it's very satisfying to know that I've made several living beings happy that day. That I left their food bowls sparkling clean and fresh water in their water bowls. That I brushed them so their coats shined, and played with them until all our hearts were beating faster. That I kissed them goodbye and left them with their tails wagging or flipping or at least raised in a happy kind of way. That's a heck of a lot more than any president, pope, prime minister, or potentate can say, and I wouldn't switch places with any of them.

  Blaize Clement

  Goodbye, Sunset, Heart

  Blaize Clement (2009). “Cat Sitter on a Hot Tin Roof: A Dixie Hemingway Mystery”, p.32, Macmillan

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• Within 10 years computers won't even keep us as pets.

  Marvin Minsky

  Years, Computer

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• Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to own (for where women and children are not, men of kindly impulses take up with pets, for they must love something)

  Mark Twain

  Children, Fall, Cat

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3504, Delphi Classics

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• Adding last-minute features, whether in response to competitive pressure, as a developer's pet feature, or on the whim of management, causes more bugs in software than almost anything else.

  John Robbins

  Requirements, Lasts, Pressure

  John Robbins (2000). “Debugging Applications: Microsoft”

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• Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents opportunities, and uplifts him whom she would inform. The apple that she drops at the feet of Newton is but a coy invitation to follow her to the stars.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Uplifting, Nature, Stars

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.78

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• I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better.

  George Bird Evans

  Dog, Nature, Silly

  "Troubles with Bird Dogs, and what to Do about Them: Training Experiences with Actual Dogs Under the Gun". Book by George Bird Evans, 1975.

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• Cancer is such a frightening and emotional roller coaster. It's a ride we all want to get off! My best advice is, find the 'glue' that will hold you together - whether it's religion, family, friends, music, yoga, a hobby or a cancer support group. Even our pets can be amazing healers. Be patient and don't give up. Trust me when I say you will come out changed and stronger on the other end of this.

  Brenda Jones

  Giving Up, Cancer, Yoga

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• I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.

  Ziggy Marley

  Friendship, Dog, Eye

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Once people spend time with farm animals in a loving way ... a pig or cow or a little chicken or a turkey, they might find they relate with them the same way they relate with dogs and cats. People don't really think of them that way because they're on the plate. Why should they be food when other animals are pets? I would never eat my doggies.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Friendship, Dog, Body

  "Loyal to the end... and beyond", www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2003.

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• I could discern clearly, even at that early age, the essential difference between people who are kind to dogs and people who really love them.

  Frances Power Cobbe

  Friendship, Dog, Differences

  Frances Power Cobbe (1867). “The confessions of a lost dog”, p.19

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• I can't think of anything that brings me closer to tears than when my old dog - completely exhausted after a hard day in the field - limps away from her nice spot in front of the fire and comes over to where I'm sitting and puts her head in my lap, a paw over my knee, and closes her eyes, and goes back to sleep. I don't know what I've done to deserve that kind of friend.

  Gene Hill

  Friendship, Dog, Nice

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• When we admit our vulnerability, we include others. If we deny it, we shut them out.

  May Sarton

  Deny, Ifs, Vulnerability

  May Sarton (2014). “Recovering: A Journal”, p.138, Open Road Media

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• After a lifetime of affectionate regard for dogs and many years of close observation and reflection, I have reached the conclusion that dogs feel more than I do (I am not prepared to speak for other people). They feel more, and they feel more purely and more intensely.

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

  Friendship, Dog, Reflection

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (1998). “Dogs Never Lie about Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs”, Broadway Books

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• In every heart there is an inner room, where we can hold our greatest treasures and our deepest pain.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Heart, Greatest Treasure

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Enchanted Love: The Mystical Power Of Intimate Relationships”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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• Man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with drooping ears, hanging lips, flexuous body, and wagging tail, he meets his beloved master.

  Charles Darwin

  Friendship, Dog, Humility

  Charles Darwin (1874). “The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals”, p.10

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