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The dogs may bark, but the caravan moves on


Joseph Needham

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VIKRANT PARSAI Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should aris...
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Dogs whine, yip, howl, bark. Cats purrr.
I say: No contest.
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ISAAC WATTS Voice of the Sea Dogs.
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SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
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ASSEGID HABTEWOLD The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
ELIZABETH PETERS But when have I ever needed saving?
"Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low ro...
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BERTRAND RUSSELL That's really sad," Beth said softly, "To have no one left.
R.J. SCOTT I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
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JACK KEROUAC Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me.
JACK KEROUAC Though the body moves, the soul may stay behind.
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TRACEY WARD Merry Christmas.” he says quietly, pulling something from his back pocket.
I frown in confusi...
TRACEY WARD Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I ...
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KAREN TAYLEUR Man on Wire
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SARAH VOWELL Why should I shatter your wonderful fantasy with my boring reality? ~ Evie Snow
CARRIE HOPE FLETCHER He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the...
HARUKI MURAKAMI My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea: But, before I go, Tom Moore, Here's ...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Gravity is only the bark of wisdom; but it preserves it.
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SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB How does the healthy dog bark? Ruff Ruff.
How does the cold dog bark ? Scarf Scarf.
How...
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SHANNON L. ALDER Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree but it preserves it
CONFUCIUS It moves in the direction that we are hoping it will take, but there may be no agreement yet on doct...
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MARCIA MAYEDA I believe it's our loss of connection with our instinctual side that prevents us from being effectiv...
CESAR MILLAN The Pekes and the Pollicles, everyone knows,
Are proud and implacable, passionate foes;
I...
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FRANK JAMES Sometimes you have to understand that you push ahead, there's going to be a lot of flak, there&#...
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HUGH NIBLEY Rehashing the past wouldn't change anything. Time to move forward.
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UMBERTO ECO [Four days later, he still refused to be provoked.] As the great Don Quixote said, ´Let the dogs ba...
HUGO CH [Four days later, he still refused to be provoked.] As the great Don Quixote said, ´Let the dogs ba...
HUGO CH Georgie, stop trying to resurrect the shoes. They were never alive in the first place.
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I'm not some fantasy
of how you think you think you know
or who ...
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JOSEPH JOUBERT Politeness is the flower of humanity.
JOSEPH JOUBERT It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Wit...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
JOSEPH JOUBERT There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; ea...
JOSEPH CONRAD Legislation, both statutory and constitutional, is enacted, it is true, from an experience of evils ...
JOSEPH MCKENNA If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of ...
JOSEPH FARRELL The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its fou...
JOSEPH FARRELL People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life... I think that what we're really seeki...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL It seems to have had an order, to have been composed by someone, and those events that were merely a...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Life, the way it really is, is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.
JOSEPH BRODSKY What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.
JOSEPH BRODSKY I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
JOSEPH HELLER Follow your bliss.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL