The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship … - Konrad Lorenz

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I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human.

Konrad Lorenz

The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being.

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The bond with a dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth can ever be.

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There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog

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The competition between human beings destroys with cold and diabolic brutality. . . Under the pressure of this competitive fury we have not only forgotten what is useful to humanity as a whole, but even that which is good and advantageous to the individual. [. . . ] One asks, which is more damaging to modern humanity: the thirst for money or consuming haste. . . in either case, fear plays a very important role: the fear of being overtaken by one's competitors, the fear of becoming poor, the fear of making wrong decisions or the fear of not being up to snuff. . .

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Most people have forgotten how to live with living creatures, with living systems and that, in turn, is the reason why man, whenever he comes into contact with nature, threatens to kill the natural system in which and from which he live.

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The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift.

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