Samuel Butler's Quote - All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part o

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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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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself. – Samuel Butler

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The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. – Samuel Butler

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God cannot alter the past, but historians can. – Samuel Butler

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Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it. – Samuel Butler

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The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. – Thomas Love Peacock

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Every day you waste is one you can never make up. – George Allen

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We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate. – Jean Baudrillard

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