Alexandra Horowitz Quotes

#1. I am I because my little dog knows me. - GERTRUDE STEIN

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#2. He was blessed with the ability to admire the unlovely. Or, I should say, he was blessed with the inability to feel there is a difference between lovely and un-.

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#3. The other part of seeing what is on the block is appreciating how limited our own view is. We are limited by our sensory abilities, by our species membership, by our narrow attention - at least the last of which can be overcome.

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#4. The result of these walks on my head is tangible: they refined what I can see.

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#5. When it comes to describing our potential physical and cognitive capacities, we are individuals first, and members of the human race second.

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#6. how we act defines who we are.

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#7. A life untrammeled by knowledge of its end is an enviable life. There

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#8. Those canids such as foxes, who do not live in a social group, appear to have a much more limited range of things to say. Even the kinds of sounds foxes make are indicative of their more solitary nature: they make sounds that travel well over long distances.

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#9. Every dog that you name and bring home will also die.

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#10. The complement of remembering so thoroughly can be the strange inability to forget anything at all.

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#11. Domestication is a variation of the process of evolution, where the selector has been not just natural forces but human ones, eventually intent on bringing dogs inside their homes.

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#12. Few celebrate a dog who jumps at people as they approach
but start with the premise that it is we who keep ourselves (and our faces) unbearably far away, and we can come to a mutual understanding.

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#13. In training a dog you must reward only those behaviors you desire the dog to repeat endlessly.

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