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Don't do this to your pets. Find a place for them or don't buy them in the first place.


Barbara Thomas

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 DON'T SET...
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TERRY GOODKIND Eat cheese and do a u-turn but if you dont like cheese dont eat cheese and do a u-turn
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RUSSELL HOBAN Oh..please dont eat me, I have a wife and three kids...eat them!
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Dont you know a treetop
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And who ...
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Dont you know a treetop
is no safe place to rock?
And w...
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MARSHA WILLIAMS For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.
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CRAIG GROESCHEL Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light.
LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light.
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RALPH NADER I get it.
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JASON PLACE I just want to play. I don't want to have to worry about anything else. College ball would be great,...
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JEAN BARRY Love me or Hate me,but plz dont use me.
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ELVIS HODZIC You dont know your wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day.
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BARBARA KRUGER I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation ...
BARBARA KRUGER I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
BARBARA KRUGER We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will ta...
BARBARA KOPPLE Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.
BARBARA KOPPLE I think I still have that same drive and determination, the same curiosity and passion for filmmakin...
BARBARA KOPPLE I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - w...
BARBARA KOPPLE The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your bra...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER The first sentence of a book is a promise.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the be...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't ca...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brav...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you mi...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort ...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on be...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying o...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the l...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of a...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact t...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER