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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Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
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Though Dutch, I was considered of Aryan race and my child -- otherwise shamed as uneheliches Kind, conceived out of wedlock -- might just be accepted into the Lebensborn program and raised by a good German family.
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One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
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If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.
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Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act.
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In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
