"I began to encounter real-life stories of dogs protecting their wounded or dying or dead handler... or dogs refusing to leave the bodies of the people they were bonded to, sitting in cemeteries for days or sometimes weeks. You find these stories endlessly."

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Source : "THR's Book of the Week: 'Suspect' by Robert Crais " by Andy Lewis, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 14, 2013.

Robert Crais

#Dog Quotes #Real Quotes #People Quotes

“When I was a missionary in London fifty years ago, my companion and I would shake hands in the morning and say to one another, 'Life is good'. Life in the service of the Lord is good. It is beautiful. It is rewarding.”
“People don't come to therapy for exclamation; they come for experience.”
“I'd rather call it "instrumental creative music," especially the music that I've been doing. If a person would hear that music, they would undoubtedly call it "jazz." There is this whole generation of musicians that are playing and thinking critically for themselves and making music that's relevant to today. I hope that's the objective of a lot of musicians.”
“Religion has always persecuted science.”
“Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws.”

Source : Sir William Blackstone, Edward Christian, John Frederick Archbold, Joseph Chitty (1827). “Commentaries on the Laws of England”, p.28
“I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.”
“Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous.”
“For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone.”

Source : "David Cameron to Unveil New Limits on Extremists' Activities in Queen's Speech". www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2015.

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