Samuel Butler Quotes
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Samuel Butler
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
Abbie Hoffman
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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.
Ian McShane
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I'm not a tall man. I'm just a hair under 5'5.
Samm Levine
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I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.
Vince Cable
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He was a man, he always performed his promises.
Zebulon Pike
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I think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging from the past, I cannot help thinking that the intention of the Supreme Intelligence that rules the world is to ultimately make such a type of man universal.
Thomas A. Edison
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When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
H. L. Mencken
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I admit I have a Hungarian temper. Why not? I am from Hungary. We are descendants of Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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I find that I take a great deal of pleasure knowing I get up people's noses to some degree.
John Connolly
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I hate losing. Whether it's marbles, spades, blackjack, whatever it is.
Odell Beckham, Jr.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Samuel Butler
