Brin-Jonathan Butler Quotes
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I always encourage over-tipping if you can afford it because... share the wealth.
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Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
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I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion.
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Look at Michelle Pfeiffer: My God, she's 50 years old, but she is still so sexy. If I were into women, I would be totally into her.
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I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.
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Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear.
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It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80's.
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You don't want to overeat too much because then you have to work twice as hard.
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I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.'
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In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner.
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
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I just do my job and go home. There's just one or two people I can say are friends that I can call.
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My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes.
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Harvard has been almost as important to the American Jewish community as the pork-sausage industry.
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Perhaps the best reason to consider the hard sciences is that, well, one study suggests science, engineering, medicine, and dentistry graduates live longer than arts graduates (or law grads). So whatever money you make you can keep a bit longer.
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Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.
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A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. All experiences are indifferent in this regard. There are some that do either a service or a disservice to man. They do him a service if he is conscious. Otherwise, that has no importance: a man's failures imply judgment, not of circumstances, but of himself.
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One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.
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Society and government at all levels - the state level, the local level and, of course, the federal level - really needs to redouble its efforts if we're really going to make a difference in combating autism.
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One of the beauties of an economy coordinated by price movements is that nobody has to understand it in order for it to work.
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Love is junk.
