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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..."
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"The dog is a gentleman, I hope to go to his heaven not man's."
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"Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers."
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"The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals."
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"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."
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"I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts."
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"Some cats are angry at being called cats. To achieve peace with them, never call them by their real name."
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"Cats gravitate to kitchens like rocks gravitate to gravity."
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"I hate cats."Death's face became a little stiffer, if that were possible. The blue glow in his eye sockets flickered red for an instant."I SEE," he said. The tone suggested that death was too good for cat haters."
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"We are like other animals; we live and die as they do. If there is any afterlife, I believe we are in together."
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"Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself."
Science
"By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new."
Mind
"We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us."
World
"Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being."
Animals
"Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves."
Research
"Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge."
Knowledge
"Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties."
Study
"In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment."
People
"It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you."
Change
"I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background."
Power
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