Samuel Butler Quotes
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No Catalan citizen and no Catalan company will leave the E.U. That is evident, and nobody can dispute it.
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Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.
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Many incredible artists die before they were famous.
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I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.
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I will keep painting until I die.
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I love diamond facials - they leave me glowing and refreshed.
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It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.
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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
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Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.
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You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.
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People die because they find living too painful.
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However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.
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Personal records are not what football is all about, but as goalscorers, we live and die by figures and numbers because, ultimately, that's how people will judge you.
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It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.
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Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
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People need to take a breath and remember that it's only fashion. Relax. No one's going to die.
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In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how another person should die. I'm just there to help them transition, however they need to do it.
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I don't know how to not have fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun, and I'm going to keep having fun every day I've got left.
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O-o-old habits die hard when you got, when you got a sentimental heart Piece of the puzzle, you're my missing part Oh what can you do with a sentimental heart?
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Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to count the times, but to gain the prayer. We cannot quit praying because heart and soul are in it. We pray "with all perseverance." We hang to our prayers because by them we live. We press our pleas because we must have them, or die.
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But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all.
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Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who agreed so well that they could afford to differ.
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There are poor societies which have too little; but where is the rich society that says: 'Halt! We have enough'? There is none.
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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
