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

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

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. – Samuel Butler

Category:
Life
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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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Samuel Butler
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Other Quotes from
Nature
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. – Anatole France

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Nature

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us. – Robinson Jeffers

Category:
Nature

Where there are large powers with little ambition… nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. – Jonathan Swift

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Nature

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit. – Thomas Huxley

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Nature

Random Quotes

Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare. – Japanese Proverb

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Vision, Visionary

My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform. – Mike Farrell

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Dreams

Its been a fascinating thing because we didnt really know how to write when we started South Park at all. Its been like, weve just sort of grown up a bit and its amazing to just see how, if you take Butters and Cartman and put them in any scene, it works. – Trey Parker

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amazing

A teacher takes a hand, opens a mind, and touches a heart. – Author Unknown

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Teacher Appreciation