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• U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Japan, Middle East

  "Pets Should Be Evacuated, Too" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2011.

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• There's a long history of anthropomorphic animals in Japanese literature. The so-called 'funny animal scrolls' were the first narratives in Japanese history, and the heroes of many folk tales have animals as their companions.

  Stan Sakai

  Hero, Animal, Long

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• My ideal travel companions are my family.

  Pharrell Williams

  Travel, My Family, Ideals

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've been all over the world on my own because, as a scientist, you travel a great deal if your work is reasonably successful or published. I get invitations to go to all sorts of strange countries where I would mostly be by myself and just meet other people there, instead of having travelling companions.

  Robert Winston

  Country, Successful, People

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• It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with tender embraces.

  Frans de Waal

  Leopards, Apes, Spontaneous

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• It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Learning, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson (1904). “The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”

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• With faith and obedience practiced long enough, the Holy Ghost becomes a constant companion, our natures change, and endurance becomes certain.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Long, Endurance, Ghost

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• The Holy Ghost is a comforter and a guide. But it is also a cleansing agent. That is why service in the kingdom is so crucial to enduring. When we are called to serve, we can pray for the Holy Ghost to be our companion with assurance it will come.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Agents, Kingdoms, Cleansing

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• A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a philosopher and acts like a Samaritan.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Wise, Men, Thinking

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• A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Life, Humorous, Dark

  P. G. Wodehouse (2012). “Uneasy Money”, p.223, The Floating Press

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• Love accepts its companion unconditionally and allow each to grow in his or her own way.

  Paulo Coelho

  Way, Accepting, Grows

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• I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Love, Romantic, Self

  Charlotte Bronte (2004). “Grade 7: Jane Eyre”, p.80, Orient Blackswan

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• I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate on such subjects disgusted me with them. When I began to study man, I saw that these abstract sciences are not suited to him, and that in diving into them, I wandered farther from my real object than those who knew them not, and I forgave them for not having attended to these things. I expected then, however, that I should find some companions in the study of man, since it was so specifically a duty. I was in error. There are fewer students of man than of geometry.

  Blaise Pascal

  Real, Communication, Science

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• My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless.

  Meg Rosoff

  Daughter, Mother, Hopeless

  "Pieces of me: Meg Rosoff", www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2008.

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• I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.

  Edward Gibbon

  Taken, Future, Recovery

  'Memoirs of My Life' (1796) ch. 8 (on the completion of 'Decline and Fall')

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• Even now, despite Angeline's watchfulness, she'd occasionally oscillate between random topics, like how shepherd's pie wasn't a pie at all and why it was pointless for her to take class in typing when technology would eventually develop robot companions to do it for us.

  Richelle Mead

  Technology, Class, Pie

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• I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: 'You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.'

  Rumi

  Soul, Ignorant, Dawn

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.4, Shambhala Publications

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• May good fortune be your constant companion.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  May, Fortune, Constant

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• I urge you to choose companions well and cherish those friends who lift you and make you better in their presence. And be such friends to one another.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Cherish, Wells, Lifts

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• Nelson Mandela was one of the most influential people in my life. He was my hero, my friend, and also a companion to me in our fight for the people and for world peace. Let us all continue his legacy with purpose and passion.

  Pele

  Hero, Passion, Fighting

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• If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.

  Seneca the Younger

  Evil, Propensity, Ifs

  "Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius)". Book by Seneca the Younger (Letter CIV), circa 65 AD.

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• Jesus has to be and become ever more the center of my life. It is not enough that Jesus is my teacher, my guide, my source of inspiration. It is not even enough that he is my companion on they journey, my friend and my brother. Jesus must become the heart of my heart, the fire of my life, the love of my soul, the bridegroom of my spirit. He must become my only thought, my only concern, my only desire.

  Henri Nouwen

  Teacher, Brother, Jesus

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (1992). “Jesus and Mary: Finding Our Sacred Center”

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• Walking companions, like heroes, are difficult to pluck out of the crowd of acquaintances. Good dispositions, ready wit, friendly conversation serve well enough by the fireside but they prove insufficient in the field. For there you need transcendentalists-nothing less; you need poets, sages, humorists and natural philosophers.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Hero, Friendly, Sage

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• Woman, as Nature has created her and as she is currently reared by man, is his enemy and can only be his slave or his despot, but never his companion. She will be able to become his companion only when she has the same rights as he, when she is his equal in education and work.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Men, Rights, Enemy

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• My wife is - in the strictest sense - my sole companion, and I need no other. There is no vacancy in my mind any more than in my heart.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Heart, Wife, Mind

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2009). “The Business of Reflection: Hawthorne in His Notebooks”

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