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 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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If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it's going to be as strong 20 years from now?
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In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men’s behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction
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Men's weaknesses are often necessary to the purposes of life.
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Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.
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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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Many a writer has spent his life putting his favorite words in all the places they belong; but how many, like E.E. Cummings, have spent their lives putting their favorite words in all the places they don’t belong, thus discovering many effects that no one had even realized were possible?
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
