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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part o

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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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books. – Samuel Butler

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God
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. – Samuel Butler

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Life
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. – Samuel Butler

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Writing
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance. – Hannah Arendt

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The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it. – Henry Miller

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Excess

I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. – Bernard Berenson

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Excess

I hold this as a rule of life: Too much of anything is bad. – Terence

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What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out. – Wynton Marsalis

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Truth is lifes most precious commodity. – Edwin Louis Cole

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Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel. – William Gurnall

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