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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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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. – Samuel Butler

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Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name. – Samuel Butler

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A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable unimplicated sun. – Llewelyn Powys, The Pathetic Fallacy

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To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. – Max Beerbohm

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Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Im very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own. – Norman MacCaig

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