Samuel Butler Quotes
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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I'm not a celebrity trainer. I don't have my own line of DVDs, but I'm a fighter and have everything to prove.
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Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.
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I really do miss playing basketball. I don't play a lot of pick-up games. But I do like using basketball as a form of cross training.
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I'll stop talking about race when people stop being racist.
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In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.
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Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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We want to let our play be the judges.
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That's the first sign you know you're a Libertarian. You see the red light. You stop. You realize that there's not a car in sight. And you put your foot on the gas.
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I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.
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We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.
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Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.
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No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes.
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There are some characters in 'The Names' who are very much heroes and others who can only be called villains. But generally, as we get to know them, we see most of the characters are, or at least become, quite nuanced.
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Loyalty and religion have many meanings, and self-interest is a skilled interpreter.
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No being exists or can exist which is not related to space in some way. God is everywhere, created minds are somewhere, and body is in the space that it occupies; and whatever is neither everywhere nor anywhere does not exist. And hence it follows that space is an effect arising from the first existence of being, because when any being is postulated, space is postulated.
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...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.
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Although man is not armed by nature nor is naturally swiftest in flight, yet he has something better by far—reason. For by the possession of this function he exceeds the beasts to such a degree that he subdues. … You see, therefore, how much the gift of reason surpasses mere physical equipment.
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Fermentation is the exhalation of a substance through the admixture of a ferment which, by virtue of its spirit, penetrates the mass and transforms it into its own nature.
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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
