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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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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing. – Samuel Butler

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Humor
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Faith – you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it. – Samuel Butler

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Faith
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When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented. – Samuel Butler

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Water
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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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Excess

Willful waste brings woeful want. – Thomas Fuller

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Excess

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, its so petty. – Imelda Marcos

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Excess

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

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The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of the Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life. – Robert MacIver

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? – Christopher Marlowe

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Love makes time pass; time makes love pass. – French Proverb

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