Samuel Butler Quotes
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.
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I have been the struggler of the century. Fortunately, everyone loves the underdog.
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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Montenegro belongs to a rare number of countries that have managed to make progress on every internationally recognisable indicator.
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Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
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Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.
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For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.
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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
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'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.
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I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign.
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What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
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As a college student, you're depending on your scholarship money, money your parents send you. So I guess when people start talking about big figures, it doesn't hit me.
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My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.
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My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
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Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends... It's every brand's goal to be seen in the mainstream, and hip-hop music has become mainstream music.
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As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.
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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.
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In addition to skyrocketing premiums, Trumpcare also unravels protections that older Americans want and need in their health coverage.
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One of the most important milestones we'll all hit along the way is the moment when we finally own our unique point of view and realize how priceless it is.
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Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
