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Samuel Butler Quotes

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: british
Birth: December 4, 1835 - June 18, 1902

Topics

Better Point Temper Controversy Most

Sometimes I have to shake my head at how much work it can take to track down a handful of food. Perfect example: I spent a whole day in the Amazon rainforest, in Ecuador, scouring the trunks of dead palm trees for grubs.

Work Food Day Trees Perfect Down

At least once a year, I meet with a group called the Giving Pledge. It's a group of billionaires - including me, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and Ted Turner - who have pledged to give away most of their money to charity. We meet for three days to talk about what we're doing to help make the planet a better place to live.

John Paul DeJoria

Live Money Me Charity Better Help

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

Love Me Bad Find Go Sometimes

You can never get used to success. Every time, it is a new thing. Every time, you feel different.

Success Time Feel You New Never

Acting is a big ambition, but I still have a professional wrestling world to conquer.

Ambition World Conquer Acting Big

If you don't deal with your shadows, you are condemned to repeat the same mistake over and over, as a human being or as a society.

Denis Villeneuve

Mistake Society You Shadows Human

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Power Government Labor Never Always

I already have enough apparel businesses that are either doing well or not really doing anything at all, and I'm looking to broaden my portfolio.

Looking Doing Enough Anything Well

I chose to embrace the spirit of my mother, who, though she had too many of her own dreams denied, deferred, and destroyed, she still instilled in me, her child, that I could have dreams and that I did have a responsibility and the power.

Mother Dreams Power Responsibility

I'm excited to be a part of the Olympic movement again.

Movement Excited Again Olympic Part

I thank God that I wasn't born perfect.

God Thank God Perfect Born Thank

Of course, experience strengthens one later.

Experience Course Later Strengthens

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