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"In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults."
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"Dogs are not like cats, who amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw. Men made dogs, they took wolves and gave them human things--unnecessary intelligence, names, a desire to belong, and a twitching inferiority complex. All dogs dream wolf dreams, and know they're dreaming of biting their Maker. Every dog knows, deep in his heart, that he is a Bad Dog..."
"Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers."
"Years later, after other experiences with dogs, I wondered if their species were shaped and charmed to serve as four-legged guides able to assist in leading humanity back to our first-and lost-home. By the example of their joy and humility, by wanting nothing more than food and play and love, by the deep satisfaction that they take from those humble things, they belie all creeds of power and fame. Although they have the teeth to tear, it is by swish of tail and yearning eyes that they most easily get what they want."
"If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much."
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"The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness."
"If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier."
"Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract."
"We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions."
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