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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

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. – Samuel Butler

Category:
Life
Author
Samuel Butler
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It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk. – Samuel Butler

Category:
Alcohol/Alcoholism
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Samuel Butler
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Other Quotes from
Nature
category

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancers body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being. – Martha Graham

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Nature

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature. – Arthur Conan Doyle

Category:
Nature

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. – John D. Rockefeller

Category:
Nature

It is not light that we need, but fire it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. – Frederick Douglass

Category:
Nature

Random Quotes

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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best

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains. – G. K. Chesterton

Category:
Understanding

If I dont make the team out of spring training, Ill keep a good attitude. Ill just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues. – Cory Lidle

Category:
Attitude

I worry whether its not really the best way to live ones life – trying to fulfill the dreams you had as a child. Maybe its quite a backwards approach. – Joe Cornish

Category:
Dreams