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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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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. – Samuel Butler

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A physicians physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a clerics divinity has to his power of influencing conduct. – Samuel Butler

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Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. – Samuel Butler

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The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom. – William Blake

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To go too far is as bad as to fall short. – Confucius

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We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day. – William Shakespeare

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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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Love truth, but pardon error. – Voltaire

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Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest. – Henry Van Dyke

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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then. – John Burroughs

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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues. – Honore de Balzac

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