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Self-preservation is the first law of nature. - Samuel Butler

Self-preservation is the first law of nature. – Samuel Butler

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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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Samuel Butler
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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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Nature
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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor. – Zora Neale Hurston

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Mans true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good. – Blaise Pascal

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Nature

You cant just let nature run wild. – Walt Disney

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Nature

Nature rejuvenates so quickly, so completely. Though we often view ourselves otherwise, we are nature. – Jeb Dickerson, jebdickerson.com

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Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart between shots at PGA Tour events. Man, the next thing you know, theyre going to have some guy carry his clubs around for him. – Jon Stewart

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I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence. – Vernor Vinge

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