Samuel Butler Quotes
Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
Samuel Butler
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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
F. H. Bradley
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All men would be tyrants if they could.
Daniel Defoe
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
Laura Prepon
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When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered.
Park Chan-wook
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
Taslima Nasrin
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In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.
Barry Unsworth
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Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room. For most, meals were informal, a kind of rolling refueling; often only the men sat down.
Nancy Gibbs
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
Oscar Isaac
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I try not to be in situations where I'm being grabbed at. For the most part, you can avoid them.
Sam Shepard
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When I start to get that few pounds, which I try to monitor, then I just pull back. So it's really just being conscious.
Carl Weathers
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Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.
Sam Levenson
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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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...men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland. These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with strong muscles by which to toil, and furry coats to protect them from the frost.
Jack London
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I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there.
Connie Chung
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Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology.
David Novak
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.
Mahatma Gandhi
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It is an occupational risk of biologists to claim, towards the end of their careers, that the problems which they have not solved are insoluble.
John Maynard Smith
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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
Samuel Butler
