Samuel Butler Quotes
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
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Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.
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The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable.
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
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Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
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His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
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Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.
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I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
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I have learned a great deal in my life, and DeMolay helped me to learn that character and integrity should be cornerstones in your life. As a Senior DeMolay, as a father, the best advice I could ever give would be to take the high road in life, and you will be able to build trusting relationships.
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My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.
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There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others.
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It's hard separating work from personal life.
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Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
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That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.
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I think it's important if you are an actor, if you are portraying human life, you have to connect with what is human. It's not easy if you spend a lot of time in L.A. and get sucked into the hedonism of the industry.
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Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.
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Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
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Life's fulfillment finds constant obstacles in its path; but those are necessary for the sake of its advance. The stream is saved from the sluggishness of its current by the perpetual opposition of the soil through which it must cut its way. The spirit of fight belongs to the genius of life.
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When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
