Samuel Butler Quotes
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
Samuel Butler
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I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.
C. L. R. James
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Dontel Benjamin on 'Eastbound' is a loud-mouth, braggadocios, crazy man, while Roy on 'Rake' is a very deliberate, thoughtful man, and he doesn't scream a lot.
Omar Dorsey
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The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.
Vince Cable
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I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.
Aaron Carter
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Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.
Fatema Mernissi
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It's too bad I'm not a flirt. When I'm on the sets, I'm too busy working on my scenes to look at the ladies.
Randeep Hooda
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There was an Old Man with a beard,Who said, 'It is just as I feared!-Two Owls and a Hen,Four Larks and a Wren,Have all built their nests in my beard!'
Edward Lear
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When I was at school you got an overall general education on many things, even just basic facts.
Jo Brand
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God never deserts a man, unless He is deserted by that man first. For even if a man shall have committed grievous sins once, twice, and a third time, God still looks for him, "so that he may be converted and live."
Caesarius of Arles
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The sermon is now the true poppy of literature.
David Swing
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Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
Samuel Butler
