Samuel Butler Quotes
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As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
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I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.
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I'm not a tall man. I'm just a hair under 5'5.
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He was a man, he always performed his promises.
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You can't get more for less. You get what you pay for.
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'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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The future is no more uncertain than the present.
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J. R. Smith's incredible, man, just incredible off the bench.
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Because you've been exposed to Western tonal music, you know after a certain chord sequence what the next possibilities are. Your brain has compiled a statistical map of which ones are most likely and least likely. If the song keeps hitting the most likely notes, you'll get bored, and if it's always the least likely ones, you'll get irritated.
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There is perhaps no better way to appreciate the dizzying stupidity of the United States than to chat with 25 consecutive morning radio hosts.
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We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
