Samuel Butler Quotes
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I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.
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When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.
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People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.
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One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.
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I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
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I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.
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So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different.
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Social media has colonized what was once a sacred space occupied by emptiness: the space reserved for thought and creativity.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.
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I've made it abundantly clear that I think that marriage is between a man and a woman.
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So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
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The Republican Party is terrific at determining how a program will impact the federal budget, but we're not nearly as good as the Democrats in explaining to people how our agenda will directly benefit them and their families.
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My parents didn't give me any scope to feel sorry for myself. They were just like 'go play with your brother, go climb a tree, go fall off your motorbike, do whatever you want. Don't come crying to us when you get scratched. You've got prosthetic legs - that's very nice.'
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What entrepreneurs and artists have in common is that they give the world something it didn't know it was missing.
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It's easier to poke holes in an idea than think of ways to fill them. And it's easier to focus on the 100 reasons you shouldn't do something rather than the one reason you should.
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I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about.
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I floated around in the department of biochemistry and learned some interesting things, and then I began to... I never wanted to work with a mentor because I always wanted to have my own reputation and be free to do what I wanted to do. So I worked with the weakest people in the department. Don't make that public.
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The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion.
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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.
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I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed like I was studying algebra and going, 'What am I going to use this for?'
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I love my fans, so when I get the chance to interact with them, it's beautiful.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
