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Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.

Marshall McLuhan

Today Rules Comfort Club

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Need Both Governments

At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.

Queen Elizabeth II

Christmas Mother Heart Father

I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!

Me Nothing Wolves Find

Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.

Family Desert Fighting Grandfather

I've said it before: War brings out the patriotic bullies. In World War I, they went around kicking dachshunds on the grounds that dachshunds were 'German dogs.' They did not, however, go around kicking German shepherds.

War World Go Said

Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor - the discipline, the call to action.

Simplicity Religion Great Discipline

All the dogs I have are German shepherds from Germany, and I fly them back to Germany to show them.

Fly Back Dogs Show

I'm never without my dog. They would be in every corner of the house, and my wife will not allow me to have any more than that. But I have lots of dogs. I love the dogs. I breed them. I always have a puppy coming. And I show dogs. I show German shepherds.

Love Me Wife Dog

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.

Beautiful Great Play Living

I feel fortunate to have a huge family that is beyond race, creed, culture, and have a Father who shepherds us all. When I think about that, my mind is blown.

Family Father Culture Mind

I grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, where my parents raised German shepherds - we had about 30 dogs at any given time.

Time Parents Farm Dogs

We have German Shepherds, gifted by a friend, and the rest are street dogs we have adopted.

Rest Friend Street Dogs

I truly believe that we're about to enter a second golden age of design. The first one was in the '50s and '60s, when designers like Raymond Loewy, Charles Eames, George Nelson and Dieter Rams were shepherds of the brands they were working with. They had influence over the products and how companies communicated and promoted themselves.

Age Believe Design Influence

Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

Rain Poor Cursed Which

I never do the cute thing with animals; they are interesting shapes. I just use their profile. Because German shepherds are so easily recognizable, they would fall outside my purview.

Billy Al Bengston

Cute Fall Never Animals

About 3,500 years ago, when a patriarch called Moses was supposed to be leading a tribe of Seth's descendants out of the deserts of the Sinai Peninsula, another tribe of shepherds and pastoralists had already established a small kingdom for itself at Balkh.

Small Kingdom Tribe Years

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.

Love Christmas Men Wise

Almost everyone who's been to primary school in Britain has had towels put on their heads to play the shepherds in the nativity play.

School Play Everyone Been

The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising of the sun; and if all the shepherds in the Forest had been there to have assisted him, they could not have effected it with greater propriety.

Sun Forest Midnight Left

I went to see Ocean Colour Scene at Shepherds Bush and and felt part of something. They paved the way for me.

Bradley Wiggins

Me Ocean Way See

Nantucket's English settlers, who first disembarked on the island in 1659, had been mindful of the sea's dangers. They had hoped to earn their livelihoods not as fishermen but as farmers and shepherds on this grassy isle dotted with ponds, where no wolves preyed.

Nathaniel Philbrick

Sea Farmers Island Wolves

I'm Irish as hell: Kelly on one side, Shanley on the other. My father had been born on a farm in the Irish Midlands. He and his brothers had been shepherds there, cattle and sheep, back in the early 1920s. I grew up surrounded by brogues and Irish music, but stayed away from the old country till I was over 40. I just couldn't own being Irish.

John Patrick Shanley

Music Father Hell Country

I have German Shepherds that I train and have brought back to Germany. I love going there.

Ted Shackelford

Love Back Train Going

I've two huge German shepherds who are my boys. They're called Biscuit and Buster, and I love them to bits.

Martin Compston

Love Two Who Them

Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds.

Henri La Fontaine

Will Sheep Before Sent

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