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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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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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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The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
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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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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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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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Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg von Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and 1880, when he designed and built the Deutsche Bank and made it, within a very few years, into continental Europe's leading and most dynamic financial institution.
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The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.
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I hate it when I get grumpy. But I can only be high-energy for so long.
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Many of the people I know and that you know are very complex human beings, and it's not all about race. Everything isn't a question of race. Everything isn't a question of economics at the very base level.
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But I figure you're never too old to learn. That's when you become old, when you stop being fascinated by things, when you stop wanting to learn and explore.
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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.
