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• When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.

  Natalie Portman

  Cute, Guy, Want

  "Biography: Natalie Portman". www.thecinemaholic.com. January 20, 2018.

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• It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high.

  Steven Seagal

  Mother, Dog, Uncles

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• Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Friendship, Food, Animal

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• Every dog must have his day.

  Jonathan Swift

  Success, Dog, Bad Day

  Jonathan Swift (1860). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.513

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• Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Baby, Love Life, Animal

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Food, Health, Animal

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1911). “The novels and other works of Lyof N. Tolstoï”

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• I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.

  Mark Twain

  Pain, Animal, Vegetarianism

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• A canter is the cure for all evil.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Animal, Evil, Cures

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• We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

  Anna Sewell

  Animal, Dumb, Suffering

  Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty”, p.141, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.

  Nora Ephron

  Love, Marriage, Dog

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Heartburn”, p.80, Vintage

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• Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Friendship, God, Dog

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• Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane.

  Smiley Blanton

  Dog, Nature, Animal

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• Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Dog, Humanity, Gentleman

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• Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.

  John Grogan

  Dog, Laughter, Home

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• A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Funny, Family, Sad

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.1117, Race Point Pub

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• Dogs don't rationalize. They don't hold anything against a person. They don't see the outside of a human but the inside of a human.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Animal, Inner Beauty

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• They motivate us to play, be affectionate, seek adventure and be loyal.

  Tom Hayden

  Friendship, Dog, Adventure

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• This principle applies to your family pet, for instance, which I believe are wonderful because they put you into a great emotional state. When you feel love for your pet, that's a great state of love that's going to bring goodness into your life, what a gift that is.

  James Arthur Ray

  Believe, Emotional, Law Of Attraction

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• It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with most of the other humans in his life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dog, Cat, Men

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• A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Funny, Dog, Humorous

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• There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Love, Funny, Music

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• I'd rather have an inch of a dog than miles of pedigree.

  Dana Burnet

  Dog, Pedigree, Inches

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• He is so shaggy. People are amazed when he gets up and they suddenly realize they have been talking to the wrong end.

  Elizabeth Jones

  Funny, Dog, Talking

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• I had a big Akita, Yoshi, who was fabulous. I loved him. We lost him when he was 12, and I've never been able to replace him. Normally, most people lose a pet and get another and keep going on. But it just felt wrong to me; it felt disloyal.

  Robert Crais

  People, Able, Fabulous

  "Novelist loses a dog, finds a heroine in "Suspect". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. January 21, 2013.

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• Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Play, Iron, Evil

  Jerome K. Jerome, Carolyn Oulton (2012). “Weeds: A Story in Seven Chapters”, p.60, Victorian Secrets

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