I have a writer’s concentration: intense, but flickering. - Donald McCaig

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Well, if you live long enough, you lose a lot. Just as long as you don't throw them away. Whatever you loose, you'll find again, but what you throw away you never get back. -Oibore (Enishi's dad) to Yahiko and Misao

Donald McCaig

I have a writer’s concentration: intense, but flickering.

Concentration, Flickering, Intense, Writers

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Humans have externalized their wisdom-stored it in museums, libraries, the expertise of the learned. Dog wisdom is inside the blood and bones.

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People often wonder just what trainers give the sheepdog in exchange for its boundless willingness. Food treats and praise sit on the trainer's shelf, untouched, unused. The sheepdog is shown its possibilities, he learns what life is like for a good dog and is invited to walk in a rational world whose farthest boundaries are defined by grace.

Dog, Giving, Life, People, Sheepdog, Trainers

It has been 20,000 years since man and dog formed their partnership.

20000, Dog, Formed, Friendship, Men

Hell yes! Gentle birth’s got to be good for something!

Birth, Births, Gentle, Hell, Yes

More often than we care to admit, inconsequential decisions change our lives.

Care, Change, Decision, Decisions, Lives, Our Lives

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I don't care a damn for their guns, or you either, sir! What I want is the Southside Railroad!

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Bernard of Clairvaux

It was love that motivated His self-emptying, that led Him to become a little lower than angels, to be subject to parents, to bow His head beneath the Baptist's hands, to endure the weakness of the flesh, and to submit to death even upon the cross

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Robert Christopher Riley

Each hamlet or village or town should be a place, its own place. This is not a matter of fake historicism or artsy-craftsy architecture. It is a matter of respect for things existing, subtle patterns of place woven from vistas and street widths and the siting and color and scale of stores, houses, and trees. . . If the countryside is to prosper, it must be different from city or suburb. . . The difference is in part the simple business of containing our towns and giving them boundaries.

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Nobuhiro Watsuki

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Ernst Mach

The history of the development of mechanics is quite indispensable to a full comprehension of the science in its present condition. It also affords a simple and instructive example or the processes by which natural science generally is developed.

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