"Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger."

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Source : S. I. HAYAKAWA (1941). “LANGUAGE IN ACTION”

Albert Payson Terhune

#Dog Quotes #Differences Quotes #Stranger Quotes

“Historically Turkey hasn't had much success in attracting foreign investment. Slowly that is changing. There's a tradition of arbitrary decisions by government ministers and senior civil servants, which would ruin businesses from one day to the next, and which has tended to deter foreign investment. That's changing, and convergence with E.U. practices is a good thing in that it improves governance.”
“I do not have too much sex. I hardly have any sex, O.K.? A lot of people get the wrong perception of me.”
“The early Rockefellers made their wealth from being in certain businesses and remained personally very wealthy. Tata's were different in the sense the future generations were not so wealthy. They were involved in the business but most of the family wealth was put into trust and most of the family did not in fact did not enjoy enormous wealth.”
“The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.”
“The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.”
“Simple models and a lot of data trump more elaborate models based on less data.”
“Well, when I think of ***** I think of an image. You have the advantage over someone, which is a form of cheating. I guess it wouldn't be right unless it was legal for everybody. Reason it's not legal for everybody is because it can hurt people seriously.”
“Therefore 'Christ hath tasted death for every man:' not only for all kinds of men, as some vainly talk, but for every one, of all kinds; the benefit of whose offering is not only extended to such, who have the distinct outward knowledge of his death and sufferings, as the same is declared in the scriptures, but even unto those who are necessarily excluded from the benefit of this knowledge by some inevitable accident.”

Source : Robert Barclay (1850). “An Apology for the Christian Divinity: As the Sameis Held Forth and Preached by the People Called, in Scorm Quakers, Being a Full Explanation and Vindication of Their Principles and Doctrines”, p.13

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