Samuel Butler Quotes
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
Samuel Butler
Quotes to Explore
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
Adam Garcia
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If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
Quintilian
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
Jack White
The White Stripes
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
Nancy Cartwright
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I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
Florentijn Hofman
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In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
Daisaku Ikeda
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People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.
Walt Handelsman
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The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.
Vic Snyder
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Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.
Oscar Niemeyer
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The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
Garrison Keillor
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
Mae West
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When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?
C. S. Lewis
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
Anatole France
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Let each man do his best.
William Shakespeare
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This moment, this being, is the thing. My life is all life in little. The moon, the planets, pass around my heart. The sun, now hidden by the round bulk of this earth, shines into me, and in me as well. The gods and the angels both good and bad are like the hairs of my own head, seemingly numberless, and growing from within. I people the cosmos from myself, it seems, yet what am I? A puff of dust, or a brief coughing spell, with emptiness and silence to follow.
Alexandra Ripley
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
Samuel Butler
