Quote by Samuel Butler
Opinions have vested interests just as men have. - Samuel Butler

Opinions have vested interests just as men have. – Samuel Butler

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. – Samuel Butler

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Art
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure. – Samuel Butler

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Fear
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Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us. – Marcus Antonius

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Opinion

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know. – Walter Benjamin

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Opinion

The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it. – Samuel Butler

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Opinion

I dont have time to be classified as difficult, and I dont have time to care. – Kim Basinger

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Opinion

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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance… poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. – Ezra Pound

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All cruelty springs from weakness. – Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

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I just think that sports movies have such a built-in visceral, rooting interest, an epic win or lose redemptive quality. When they get it right, it can make for a really rousing movie experience. – Shawn Levy

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Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe its irresponsible to arbitrarily dismiss any idea, Republican nor Democrat, without giving it a hard look. – Conrad Bums

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