Joseph Butler Quotes
Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.
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Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.
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One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit.
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I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.
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Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
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Nature can do more than physicians.
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Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
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When we're ill, one of the last things we have that we can enjoy is food.
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GM has never been about feeding the world or tackling environmental problems. It is and has always been about control of the global food economy by a tiny handful of giant corporations. It's not wicked to question that process. It is wicked not to.
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If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
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I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!
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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
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We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.
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Years down the line, I became a food stylist.
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The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.
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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
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I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!
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Music was our food... When we can play, it can't be so terrible. The music, the music!
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The reason why the British theatrical tradition is world-leading in Greek drama is because there is a flourishing tradition of people rethinking Greek tragedy.
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Right away I think of two books - 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Rebecca' - and of just sinking into them as a young reader. I think they must have appealed not just to my romantic adolescent soul, but I suppose there's also an appealing darkness in both of them.
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The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.
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Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.
