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Joseph Butler Quotes

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality: english
Birth: May 18, 1692 - June 16, 1752

Topics

Nature Food Compassion Unhappy Call

From the 1920s through to the 1970s, bridal was related to the fashion of the times. Then in the 1980s, it became more historical, decadent, and ornate.

Fashion More 1920s Historical 1980s

In India there are more poor people in three states... than there are in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa.

Andrew Mitchell

People India Three Africa Poor More

At the end of all this, Russia held in her hands a vast belt of land running from the Baltic sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, comprising eleven nations with a population of 100 million people.

Sea People Black End Hands Land

From a young age, I wanted to play in the NBA. Oh well... It was when I was a senior in college that I fell for film, but even then, it wasn't documentaries. It wasn't until I ended up in graduate school at Southern Illinois University that I really discovered documentaries and thought that maybe that would be my calling.

Age School College Thought Play Up

I don't think you go to a play to forget, or to a movie to be distracted. I think life generally is a distraction and that going to a movie is a way to get back, not go away.

Life Think You Back Play Forget

I don't know why the universe is so determined to keep my feet on the ground.

Feet Universe Know Why Determined

I never thought I could write fiction.

Jonathan Galassi

Thought Never Write Fiction Could

Character is the starting point from which we go on. When I say a man has character, I mean that when you go to that man and say, 'What are the facts in this case?' he will tell you the truth, justly, truly, and wisely as he knows, with the minimum of exhibitionism and the maximum of devotion to the common cause.

Douglas Southall Freeman

Character Truth Man Facts You Go

Unlike Wimpy Tim Kaine, Virginians have a warrior spirit and a rebel heart.

Heart Warrior Rebel Spirit Unlike

I've always gravitated towards those ultimate lines in songs, the line you grab on to. That line in 'Smells Like Teen Spirit,' 'Here we are now/Entertain us' - the irony, the antagonism; that's always stuck with me.

Teen Me You Spirit Irony Line

My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may be a denigrated community that is filthy and poor, but they are not alone; they are with people.

Chuck Palahniuk

Community Alone Loneliness People

Indeed, follow your star if you want to head north and it's the North Star. But if you want to head north and it's Mars, you had better follow somebody else's star.

Better You Want Follow Mars Head

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