Samuel Butler Quotes
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Samuel Butler
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I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever going to get to sing? Does she even sing?' But people who know me know I actually do sing.
Uzo Aduba
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My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it.
Olivia Williams
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In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
Ida B. Wells
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I don't just train to be a participant. I train to come up big in big moments. That's when I know I've got to roll the sleeves up.
Carli Lloyd
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In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
Bao Dai
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I am so far more secure and more grounded and more know who I am than when I was in my 20s.
Iman
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And lastly there is the oldest and deepest desire, the Great Escape: the Escape from Death. Fairy-stories provide many examples and modes of this … Fairy-stories are made by men not by fairies. The Human-stories of the elves are doubtless full of the Escape from Deathlessness.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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I have not learned how often I Can win, can love, but choose to die.
W. D. Snodgrass
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I am not bothered by the fact that I am not understood. I am bothered when I do not know others.
Confucius
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No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even slightly ungraceful - a record against which must be pitted the depressing spectacle of impossibly flattened bulldogs, grotesquely elongated dachshunds, hideously shapeless and shaggy Airedales, and the like.
H. P. Lovecraft
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If there is a horrific attack on this country like 9/11, the American people will demand we go to war and settle accounts with those who did it. But America's appetite for intervention, for nation building, for democracy crusades, is fully sated.
Pat Buchanan
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Samuel Butler
