Samuel Butler Quotes
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hotels in the U.S.
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I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.
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It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.
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When you are young, you sometimes play one good game and then one bad game.
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Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?
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By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.
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We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.
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I'm at the right age to work with dead people, but you have to be smart to be a CSI.
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There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
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The one question, the one principle, the one crisis in art of the twentieth century centers in the uncompromising 'purity' of art, and in the consciousness that art comes from art only, not from anything else.
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There is an unwritten social rule now that you can harangue the wealthy to give money away, but you mustn't ask how the money was made. There are no galas celebrating the money people knew better than to seek. Charity begins after profit.
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Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.
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The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, and the mathematics holds together in a very tight and consistent way. It contains in its basic structure both quantum mechanics and the theory of gravity. That's big news.
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Cuban artists had, for a while, a privileged position within Cuba that is probably going to become slightly less restricted to them. I think they'll continue to join the international art world, so those people who are extremely successful will become even more so and those who are struggling will continue to struggle.
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I don't like hearing that I've lost weight. I like hearing that it looks like I have gained weight?!
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I always made stuff but never thought, I'm going to be an artist.
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We cannot avoid our lives. We have to face our lives, young or old, rich or poor. Whatever happens, we cannot save ourselves from our lives at all... the more you understand, the more you will realize your own responsibility.
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When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much on the side of absolute truth, or you would become too theoretical. You are not too much on the side of relative truth, or you would become too precise. When you put them together, you realize that there is no problem.
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People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that it is not worth living. In truth, there is no necessary common measure between these two judgments.
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Art came fluidly, so I was able to teach myself many of the things I thought were important by copying and mimicking my artistic idols.
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You can't look forward and backward at the same time...........so I choose to look forward.
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My attempts to demonstrate evolution by an experiment carried on for more than 40 years have completely failed.....It is not even possible to make a caricature of an evolution out of paleobiological facts...The idea of an evolution rests on pure belief.
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In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
