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Samuel Butler Quotes

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Man Tone Temper Himself Won Which

People find themselves in ruts all the time. You're in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 to 5 and then you add a mortgage and kids. You feel trapped, but guess what, brother? You constructed that life. If you're OK with it, there's nothing wrong with that. But if you've got unease, then you've got to make a change.

Life Work Change Time Brother You

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

Sea Sky Ship Lonely Down Go

Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy's life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

Life Good Relationship Healthy Want

In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.

Relationship Man Religion Position

The reality is, to watch Jon Stewart, you already have to have watched the news. In other words, it's not funny if he does a joke about John McCain and they don't know who John McCain is.

Funny Words Reality You News Know

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Freedom Children Generation Never

I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.

Family Funny Think Because I Think

Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.

Life Fitness Best Believe Gift Body

My father became completely responsible for my education and for raising me.

Education Father Me Responsible

'Leverage' is meant to be based in Boston. But in one episode we're in New York, then another in Chicago, Florida, and Eastern Europe.

New York Meant To Be New Chicago

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.

Change Day Sleep Person Go Know

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

William Hazlitt

Wisdom Think Wish Virtue Mankind

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