"The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his."

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Source : James Thurber (1955). “Thurber's Dog's: A Collection of the Master's Dogs”

James Thurber

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“Ambition never comes to an end.”

Source : "The Tzuredzure gusa of Yoshida no Kaneyoshi". Book by Yoshida Kenkō, translated by George Sansom, 1911.
“The most central truth to the creation account is that this world is a place for God's presence.”

Source : John H. Walton (2010). “The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate”, p.85, InterVarsity Press
“Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.”
“I never tried to be a mercenary or a killer but a hard working fighter.”
“I'm not the one going for a biology degree. I'm just a philosophy major who eats people.”
“Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structure can express the forms of vital experience which language is peculiarly unfit to convey. Feeling, life, motion and emotion constitute its import.”
“Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden?”
“Romance is sort of an island right next to care. When you care about someone and you listen to them and you hear them and you can feel them and you know just what's right, and generally it's something that will be very unimpressive to a room of strangers.”

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