"The dog becomes the repository of those model human properties that we have cynically ceased to find among humans. Where today can we find the full panoply of William Bennett's Book of Virtues-from Courage and Responsibility to Loyalty and Family Values-but in Lassie and Beethoven and Millie and Checkers and Spot?"

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Source : Marjorie Garber (1997). “DOG LOVE”, Touchstone

Marjorie Garber

#Loyalty Quotes #Dog Quotes #Book Quotes

“I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life.”
“The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions.”
“Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.”
“Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience.”

Source : Tom Hodgkinson (2006). “How to be Free”
“I want to produce with people that are going to be on the charts and win Grammys because having regular old street songs is cool, but I did all that already.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. February 6, 2012.
“There are no dumb questions, but there are plenty of people who give dumb answers.”
“Weâ€™re in the business of luxury and thereâ€™s nothing more luxurious than being good to people, being respectful of them.”
“Every knock is a boost.”

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