Breeders Quotes

• It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.

  Gilbert Parker

  Friendship, Men, Years

  Gilbert Parker (1798). “Mrs. Falchion”, p.173

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• No matter how little money and how few possesions you own, having a dog makes you rich.

  Louis Sabin

  Dog, Silly, Owning A Pet

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• A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

  Josh Billings

  Love, Friendship, Dog

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• You are the Master of your own Destiny

  Sivananda

  Destiny, Masters, My Destiny

  Swami Sivananda (1964). “Bliss Divine: A Book of Spiritual Essays on the Lofty Purpose of Human Life and the Means to Its Achievement”

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• The breeding of shepherd dogs is the breeding of working dogs; and this must always be the aim, or we shall cease to produce shepherd dogs.

  Max von Stephanitz

  Dog, Goal, Shepherds

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• The breeder can indeed lay the foundations of a good and serviceable dog but the trainer must see to it that he brings to their highest possible development, the physical and mental foundations already laid and thus his is the more grateful task.

  Max von Stephanitz

  Dog, Grateful, Foundation

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• No breeder is above catering to intelligent praise of his dog.

  Albert Payson Terhune

  Dog, Intelligent, Praise

  Terhune, Albert Payson (2014). “The Heart of a Dog - Illustrated”, p.111, Read Books Ltd

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• The most striking features of the correctly bred German Shepherds are firmness of nerves, attentiveness, unshockability, tractability, watchfulness, reliability and incorruptibility together with courage, fighting tenacity and hardness.

  Max von Stephanitz

  Dog, Courage, Fighting

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• The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

  Samuel Butler

  Dog, Humorous, Animal

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 14

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• Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Nurse, Good Times

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.227

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  The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

  Andy Rooney

  Inspirational, Funny, Dog

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  If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspiring, Dog, Silly

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• A few yes men may be born, but mostly they are made. Fear is a great breeder of them.

  William Wrigley, Jr.

  Men, May, Birth

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• Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people.

  Freeman Dyson

  Engineering, Orchids, Snakes

  Freeman Dyson (2015). “Dreams of Earth and Sky”, p.2, New York Review of Books

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• An offended heart is the breeding ground of deception.

  John Bevere

  Heart, Deception, Breeding

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• Nature, left to her own devices, finds it hard to produce anything that is ugly. The work of the plant breeder should always be to enhance nature, not to detract from it....we should strive to develop the rose's beauty in flower, growth and leaf.

  David C.H. Austin

  Flower, Rose, Growth

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• Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Prosperity, Insolence

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.385, Courier Corporation

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• The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.

  William James

  Desire, Gains, Wealth

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.368, Courier Corporation

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• The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands.

  John L. Lewis

  Philosophy, Real, Government

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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• I get a lot from great '90s artists like Juliana Hatfield, The Pixies, and bands like That Dog and The Breeders.

  Margaret Cho

  Dog, Artist, Band

  "Margaret Cho on why Yello’s “Oh Yeah” reminds her of sex clubs and John Hughes". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. March 2, 2016.

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• My dad was a breeder. Most of his work happened in little test plots and didn't require much labor. He tried growing them for a while, and realized that farming is hard. It's just brutally hard. We didn't have the interest or fortitude to farm.

  Sanjay Rawal

  Dad, Plot, Growing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Farms, whether small or large, are places where slaves are kept. The animals are fattened up to be eaten, or exploited for their ability to make honey or milk, or for their fur, wool or body parts; they are kept as breeders to produce more animals who can in turn be exploited and ultimately sold, slaughtered, and eaten.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Wool, Fur

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Plutonium is so hazardous that if you had a fully developed nuclear economy with breeder reactors fueled with plutonium, and you managed to contain the plutonium 99.99 percent perfectly, it would still cause somewhere between 140,000 and 500,000 extra lung-cancer fatalities each year.

  John Gofman

  Cancer, Years, Causes

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• Heredity is to-day the central problem of biology. This problem may be approached from many sides - that of the breeder, the experimenter, the statistician, the physiologist, the embryologist, the cytologist - but the mechanism of heredity can be studied best by the investigation of the germ cells and their development.

  Edwin Conklin

  Cells, Development, May

  "The Mechanism of Heredity". "Science", Vol. 27, No. 691, January 17, 1908.

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• Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their scriptoria did not invent the printing press, horse breeders did not invent the motorcar, and the music industry did not invent the iPod or launch iTunes.

  Jason Epstein

  Horse, Technological Change, Ipods

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