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• Having a dog or cat will open your heart. Reading a book will open your mind. Having both a pet and a book... absolute heaven.

  Mark Rubinstein

  Dog, Book, Reading

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• One suggestion is to regard your personality as a pet. It follows you around anyway, so give it a name and make friends with it. Keep it on a leash when you need to, and let it run free when you feel that is appropriate. Train it as well as you can, and then accept its idiosyncrasies, but always remember that your pet is not you. Your pet has its own life, and just happens to be in an intimate relationship with you, whoever you may be, hiding there behind your personality.

  Wes Nisker

  Running, Intimate Relationships, Names

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• A leopard doesn't change his spots just because you bring him in from the jungle and try to housebreak him and turn him into a pet. He may learn to sheathe his claws in order to beg a few scraps off the dinner table, and you may teach him to be a beast of burden, but it doesn't pay to forget that he'll al ways be what he was born: a wild animal.

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  Change, Animal, Order

  Interview with Alex Haley, Playboy, April 1966.

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• Pets are found to suffer from all the ailments known to the human.

  Dick Gregory

  Dark, Suffering, Age

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• If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations - then so much the worse for Maxwell's equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation - well, these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.

  Arthur Eddington

  Hope, Science, Errors

  "The Nature of the Physical World" by Arthur Eddington, (Ch. 4), 1928.

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• If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness.

  Marjorie Garber

  Friendship, Dog, Sadness

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• The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.

  Willie Morris

  Friendship, Family, Dog

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• People have been asking me if I was going to have kids, and I had puppies instead.

  Kate Jackson

  Funny, Dog, Kids

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• Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is a sport. Sport is when individuals or teams compete against each other under equal circumstances to determine who is better at a given game or endeavor. Hunting will be a sport when deer, elk, bears, and ducks are... given 12-gauge shotguns. Bet we'd see a lot fewer drunk yahoos (live ones, anyway) in the woods if that happened.

  Richard Lerner

  Sports, Spiritual, Team

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• A wonderful bird is a pelican,
  His bill will hold more than his belican.
  He can take in his beak
  Food enough for a week;
  But I'm damned if I see how the helican.

  Dixon Lanier Merritt

  Animal, Bird, Cooking

  "The Pelican". Poem by Dixon Lanier Merritt, 1910.

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• One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff.

  Shirley Ann Grau

  Winter, Stuff, Kind

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• Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.

  Rue McClanahan

  Fashion, Animal, Fur

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• Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies...that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself.

  T. Casey Brennan

  Compassion, Animal, Meals

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• Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish

  Chevy Chase

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• I must say...that more unmanly, brutal treatment of a little pony it was never my painful lot to witness; and by giving way to such passion, you injure your own character as much, nay more, than you injure your horse, and remember, we shall all have to be judged according to our works, whether they be towards man or towards beast.

  Anna Sewell

  Horse, Passion, Character

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• The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Animal, Essence, Christian Inspirational

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• Standing before you as the advocate of the lower races, I declare what I believe cannot be gainsaid...that just so soon and so far as we pour into all our schools the songs, the poems, and literature of mercy toward these lower creatures, just so soon and so far shall we reach the roots not only of cruelty, but of crime.

  George Thorndike Angell

  Song, Believe, School

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• Some years ago I wrote a book called The House on Eccles Street. To write this book I had to think my way into the existence of Marion Bloom...Marion Bloom was a figment of James Joyce's imagination. If I can think my way into the existence of a being who has never existed, then I can think my way into the existence of a bat or a chimpanzee or an oyster, any being with whom I share the substrate of life.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.

  C. S. Lewis

  Animal, Choices, Levels

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• I've always felt you don't have to be completely detached, emotionally uninvolved to make precise observations. There's nothing wrong with feeling great empathy for your subjects.

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, Empathy, Feelings

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• We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly human.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Sympathy, Animal, Voice

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• We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Heart, Animal, Men

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• Men will be just to men when they are kind to animals.

  Henry Bergh

  Animal, Men, Ethics

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• Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind.

  Henry Bergh

  Mean, Animal, Ethics

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• To me, a philosopher who says that the distinction between human and nonhuman depends on whether you have a white or a black skin, and a philosopher who says that the distinction between human and nonhuman depends on whether or not you know the difference between a subject and a predicate, are more alike than they are unlike.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Animal, White, Differences

  J M Coetzee (2015). “Elizabeth Costello”, p.111, Random House

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