Samuel Butler Quotes

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

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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Israel has a sizeable nuclear arsenal and could retaliate if it were attacked.

Stephen M. Walt

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I did look for compromise. I worked in a bipartisan way.

Stephanie Herseth

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I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win.

Stuart Symington

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I had gotten one of the first Korg synthesizers with 300 presets.

Steven Tyler

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Ladies, you do not have to submit yourself to any man abusing you.

Tony Evans

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We are being entertained all the time - in the bathroom, on the train, in our beds. Sure, there is a smaller audience for theater. But we know from radio that entertainment never goes away, it just changes. And more power to it.

Mike Nichols

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Conducting is a strange thing to teach. There are very few great conducting teachers, and most great conductors don't teach. Look at Valery Gergiev - what he does is not teachable. A lot of it is on-the-job training, what works and what doesn't work.

Joshua Bell

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In my very first interview, at nine years old, I said I wanted to be an Olympic gold medalist. That was the first time I said it out loud in front of somebody other than my parents.

Dominique Moceanu

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Success produces success, just as money produces money.

Diane Ackerman

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I will always be the hopeless romantic, more often pathetic than heroic.

Chris Lowell

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The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

Pope Francis

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I'm honored. Really honored that the Red Sox have asked me to possible be on the board of the Red Sox Foundation and do some stuff on their charitable works that they are so passionate about.

Tim Wakefield

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