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Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy

Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible. – Samuel Butler

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We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms. – Samuel Butler

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Money
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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. – Samuel Butler

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I came to the place of my birth and cried, The friends of my youth, where are they? And echo answered, Where are they? – Arabic Proverb

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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and its the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husbands mood. – Marquis De Sade

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My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, like a fiend hid in a cloud. – William Blake

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These wretched babies dont come until they are ready. – Queen Elizabeth

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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting. – Paul Cezanne

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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the 50s and 60s. The seed of my interest was planted when I was about 12 years old and took over my mothers Morris Minor. I drove it around my fathers farm. But my favorite car is still a McLaren F1, which I have had for 10 years. – Rowan Atkinson

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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example. – Alexander Pope

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