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Samuel Butler Quotes

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good People World Speak Dare Sorrow

I think people hate me pretty much across the board, which is nice. I mean, it's a pretty evenhanded loathing among a certain amount of the critical population, which used to be about 80 percent. So now I've gotten to the point where I just don't worry about it that much. It used to be very upsetting, now it's only mildly upsetting.

Michael Ian Black

Hate People Me Think Worry Nice

Judaism is one of the last of the world's matrilineal philosophies. Matriarchies are always the cultures that patriarchy attacks and decimates, because they don't spend all their money on the military like patriarchy does. They are easy prey.

Money World Easy Military Cultures

Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000.

Sad Great Energy Others Starting

I was a big fan of black gospel. As a kid, there were black groups I sang with from my teen years to my early 20s.

Teen Black Early Kid Years Big

Give me liberty or a bran muffin!

Me Liberty Give Me Give Muffin

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

Strong Feedback Pop Loop Very

No one has ever suffered from his people as I have.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

People His Ever Suffered

Of course, I'm sour that if (retirement) happens, I didn't get to quit on my own terms.

Retirement Quit My Own Sour Own Get

It was always kind of sad when your favorite punk rockers, like Jello Biafra or someone, would say they hate something you like. It was, 'Oh, I thought we were on the same page.'

Richard Linklater

Sad Hate Thought Someone You Kind

We all have these notions of cool that come about at different points in our lives, and it's interesting in how it evolves or doesn't evolve in different people.

People Cool Interesting Evolve Come

After 9/11, most Americans were in no mood to talk with our enemies in the Middle East, whatever those enemies' ideology, and the Bush administration's policies of invasion and pre-emption reflected that sentiment.

Mood Talk Enemies Whatever Middle

My biggest complaint about drivers out in the country has tended to be that they're not in a great hurry to get where they're going. This is particularly true of old men wearing hats. If you get behind an old guy wearing a hat on a winding road, you might as well just phone ahead on your cell and tell your friends you're going to be late.

Linwood Barclay

Great Men Hat Road Friends You

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