Samuel Butler Quotes

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

Samuel Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I love my family, I love my relatives. One special request I have is for the media back in Taiwan to kind of give them their space because they can't even go to work without being bombarded and people following them.

Jeremy Lin

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To restore and keep the public's confidence in the integrity of their government, state government and its officials must be open, honest and transparent.

John Lynch

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What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.

Anita Hill

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I will always choose the dollar bill carrying a wildly fluctuating discount rather than the dollar bill selling for a quite stable premium.

Michael Burry

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Bitcoin is amazingly transformative because it's the first time in the entire history of the world in which anybody can now send or receive any amount of money, with anyone else, anywhere on the planet, without having to ask permission from any bank or government.

Roger Ver

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The FCC has made it clear it would punish a cable or phone company for deviating from providing 'neutral' access.

Marvin Ammori

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The Salafists, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Al Qaeda in Iraq are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria.

Michael T. Flynn

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If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to engage with the other Africa.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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I know that sounds corny. And I know you've heard it before. But it's really true: We're so much more than our bodies.

Chrissy Metz

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Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.

Bono

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I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.

Phil Donahue

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We also need people like social workers, volunteers, the Christian Industrial League, drug treatment programs to make sure you are getting them a job. That's what you have to do. Otherwise, we just keep stepping around these things.

Richard M. Daley

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