Samuel Butler Quotes
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
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The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.
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I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.
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To survive is to win.
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This uprising of 1976-77 was, of course, the historic watershed... Within a short period of time, it propelled into the forefront of our struggle millions of young people.
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What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
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I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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I have the right to protect myself. I feel like I have very good aim. My wife is better.
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My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.
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Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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One of the laudable by-products of the Freudian quackery is the discovery that lying, in most cases, is involuntary and inevitable--that the liar can no more avoid it than he can avoid blinking his eyes when a light flashes or jumping when a bomb goes off behind him.
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Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.
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What is becoming more interesting than the myths themselves has been the study of how the myths were constructed from sparse or unpromising facts-indeed, sometimes from no facts-in a kind of mute conspiracy of longing, very rarely under anybody’s conscious control.
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I don't really like using guns too much, you know, even for sport.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
