Quote by Samuel Butler
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

We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms. – Samuel Butler

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Money
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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. – Samuel Butler

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Death
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Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price. – Napoleon Hill

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Nature

To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them – these nature spirits who call us here – sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love. – Alex Grey

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Nature

People must help one another it is natures law. – Jean de La Fontaine

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Nature

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. – e.e. cummings

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The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. – James Fenimore Cooper

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If fortune smiles, who doesnt? If fortune doesnt, who does? – Chinese Proverb

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We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs. – Stephen Harper

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Medicine, the only profession that labours incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence. – James Bryce (1838–1922)

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