Samuel Butler Quotes
In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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I believe... we were told that the 'Bluetooth AirPods', whatever they are, can be used on anything that supports Bluetooth audio.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.
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The simple things in life make me very happy.
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The following is a list of statements made many years ago by experts in their fields. At the time they were said they sounded intelligent. With the passing of time, they sound idiotic.
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I'm not a nervous flier. I realize it's still the safest form of travel.
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I'm a white, middle-class male who had a happy childhood in Ohio. The world does not need me to be a novelist.
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I've got this brilliant thing where I go, 'I'm Robbie Williams', and people are interested in what I want to say - which is amazing because I'm just an idiot from Stoke-on-Trent.
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In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
