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Samuel Butler Quotes

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

Samuel Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good Knowledge Art Youth Evil Care

Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.

Andrew Greeley

Behavior Human Behavior Human Survey

Theology is unnecessary.

Stephen Hawking

Unnecessary Theology

I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a similar set up in that you kind of set something up and pay it off with a laugh or a scare.

Simon Pegg

Story Think Laugh You Kind Pay

My mother was married to one of the greatest newsmen of all times. CNN was built out of his idealism and his recognition that, in a global age, we needed greater understanding of the world around us.

Troy Garity

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The Jewish exodus from North Africa, in the late nineteen-fifties and the nineteen-sixties, brought hundreds of thousands of Algerian, Moroccan, and Tunisian Jews to France.

Tom Reiss

Late Africa Jewish France Jews

I think I finally overcame my self-esteem and confidence issues at around 20.

Rupi Kaur

Confidence Think Self-Esteem Finally

I've never had to pretend to be having sex with somebody. I'm like the queen of the foreplay dissolve.

Julia Roberts

Queen Sex Never Pretend Like Having

Laughter and joy are part of the beauty of life.

Diogo Morgado

Life Beauty Joy Laughter Part

I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.

Diane Abbott

Fear Christmas Dogs Morbid Postman

My mother made me truly appreciate women.

Drake

Mother Women Me Appreciate Made

Northern New Jersey looks like a cluster of idyllic suburbs, but each of those seemingly normal towns has a dark side that's constantly gossiped about but never publicly acknowledged. They seem to thrive on their strangenesses.

Chris Gethard

Thrive Dark Looks New Dark Side

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

Peter Abelard

Wisdom Truth Key Question Constant