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" What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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" My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it. "

Maggie Stiefvater

" I've been lucky. I've made films that I really like. It's been a combination of what comes to me and what I choose. I've gone after lots of things that I didn't get, pet projects that everybody ends up chasing after. Really, you're lucky if you get anything. "

" War settles nothing. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after. "

Karl Pilkington

" Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home. "

" Though each trainer believes his or her method is best, I don't think it matters which method the pet owner adopts so long as that owner finds a capable mentor and sticks with the training. Eventually you will learn to see your dog, and when that happens, the richness of your and your dog's lives will tell you what to do next. "

" It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked. "

" In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims? "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" I have some road rage inside of me. Traffic, especially in L.A., is a pet peeve of mine. "

" Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. "

Alfred A. Montapert

" I'm very into Taylor Swift. From her music to her wardrobe, she is absolutely killing it. Also, she has adorable cats that I would love to pet. "

" Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other. "

Robert Benchley

" Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" I try not to wear anything I have to fidget with - there's nothing worse than wearing something and pulling down the hem and re-adjusting the top. My pet hate is when girls wear those strapless dresses and spend the whole night yanking them up. "

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

" Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops. "

" My best time to write is right after coffee and breakfast - four eggs - because, full disclosure, I'm really a komodo dragon - and that's because then I'm energized but not so awake that the critical voice clicks on, the voice that sometimes says, 'Don't write that,' or, 'Man, that sentence is terrible - you should give up and go pet the cats.' "

Jeff Vandermeer

" I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about. "

Karl Pilkington

" I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet. "

" My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo. "

" I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date. "

" Definitely, when I have a place and I'm going to be there for any significant amount of time, I want to have dogs. I like a pet you can have some fun with and who does everything you do. "

" Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" When you're fighting for social justice, one of my biggest pet peeves is speaking out of ignorance. "

" We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat. "