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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When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.
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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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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
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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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Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
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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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I beat Diaz, Pettis, Ben Henderson, Cerrone, and I earned it, man. I earned my title.
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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'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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There are a lot more female writers wanting to direct their own material and hopefully will be given the opportunity.
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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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As a little girl, I was always shy, but in front of the camera I wasn't.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
