"Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, Filling an emptiness we don't even know we have."

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Thom Jones

#Dog Quotes #People Quotes #Pet Quotes

“Culture is always the echo of economic realities; that's what Marx teaches. Feminism is a clear example of that.”
“There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is that he feels his own nothingness, isolation, insignificance, dependent nature, powerless, emptiness. Immediately there issue from his soul ennui, sadness, chagrin, vexation, despair.”
“Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.”
“90% of toys are made in china, which technically makes the chinese elves”
“In Nepal, the phenomenon is reversed. Time is a stick of incense that burns without being consumed. One day can seem like a week; a week, like months. Mornings stretch out and crack their spines with the yogic impassivity of house cats. Afternoons bulge with a succulent ripeness, like fat peaches. There is time enough to do everything - write a letter, eat breakfast, read the paper, visit a shrine or two, listen to the birds, bicycle downtown to change money, buy postcards, shop for Buddhas - and arrive home in time for lunch.”

Source : Jeff Greenwald (2014). “Shopping for Buddhas: An Adventure in Nepal”, p.16, Travelers' Tales
“The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.”
“When I got married, I was all in love, but then came life intruding in, and sometimes it's difficult ... I would look at my husband and ask, 'did we do it too quickly?' ... But my husband was strong in his resolve. He kept reminding me that people go through this, and that we were going to be ok.”
“When I sleep to much I don't score. That's the reason I like to go out a lot.”

Source : Veja Magazine; 1895 Edition, March 9, 2005.

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