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"These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north."
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"Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar."

"I also have two dogs, a Chihuahua and a Yorkshire terrier, so if they like him, that's a good sign."
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"We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare."

"If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it!"
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"When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe."


"Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?"


"If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet."


"We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it."


"If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology."


"It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space."


"It was a place without a single feature of the space-time matrix that he knew. It was a place where nothing yet had happened - an utter emptiness. There was neither light nor dark: there was nothing here but emptiness."


"It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured to a point where it would have no thought of dominating another intelligent species."


"Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists."


"Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet."
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