"I could discern clearly, even at that early age, the essential difference between people who are kind to dogs and people who really love them."

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Source : Frances Power Cobbe (1867). “The confessions of a lost dog”, p.19

Frances Power Cobbe

#Dog Quotes #Differences Quotes #People Quotes

“Although we hardly see each other off the set, Joy and I get along well when we do. As far as the marriage between Nathan and Haley, I think they are young and will see the reality of the situation eventually.”
“Since it was announced that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has condemned my works and criticized them harshly. All of my works are now banned from getting into China or being published in China. What author would want to return to a country that banned his or her books?”
“Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behavior, and they are classic excuses.”
“To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top reporter and the power of a novelist.”
“It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.”
“I've been a fan of Mads since the â€œCasino Royaleâ€ movie. I really sat up and paid attention to him. I was like, â€œWho is this motherf**ker?â€ Even his work in something as sort of popcorn as â€œClash of the Titans,â€ he brings a kind of danger and reality and he grounds it in such a way that you think, yes, I'm good to work with this guy. I should come back, just stay behind him. (Laughs) Our working relationship has been fantastic.”
“The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation.”

Source : Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.339, Duke University Press
“You should do whatever language you feel is the perfect language for you to sing in and then try to strive to do the best.”

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