"In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog."

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Source : Edward Hoagland (1976). “Red Wolves and Black Bears”, Random House Incorporated

Edward Hoagland

#Dog Quotes #Nature Quotes #Silly Quotes

“Pride is characterized by "What do I want out of life?" rather than by "What would God have me do with my life?" It is self-will as opposed to God's will. It is the fear of man over the fear of God.”
“If you told me I could only do one thing, I would choose live concerts.”
“Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.”
“I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic Reality.”
“Our oil problems are only going to get worse. Our trade balance is only going to get worse. So we have to slow the growth of U.S. oil consumption, particularly imported oil consumption.”
“Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment.”
“It takes so long to put a movie into production and finish it that anyone with a bad idea has time to give it to you before the movie is completed.”
“Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.”

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