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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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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Years down the line, I became a food stylist.
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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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Compassion is not a popular virtue.
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I believe our legacy will be defined by the accomplishments and fearless nature by which our daughters and sons take on the global challenges we face. I also wonder if perhaps the most lasting expression of one's humility lies in our ability to foster and mentor our children.
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Sunlight is painting.
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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
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I always say, 'There's a difference between cooked food and McDonald's.' Your mom's homemade dinner - you enjoy this more than you enjoy the fast food that comes along and goes, and I strive to make homemade dinner every time I put out an album.
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'If you go all the way back to the days just following creation, men lived nine hundred years or more.' - Answers to 200 of Life's most Probing Questions
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As an American, you have a right to good health care that is effective, accessible, and affordable, that serves you from infancy through old age, that allows you to go to practitioners and facilities of your choosing, and that offers a broad range of therapeutic options.
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Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.
