Quote by Samuel Butler
The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chas

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion. – Samuel Butler

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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. – Samuel Butler

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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence. – Samuel Butler

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For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore. – Ted Nugent

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Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the 90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together… something we dont spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness. – Alan Thicke

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When were dealing with the people in our family – no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs – we give from the deepest parts of ourselves. – Anne Lamott

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Ill never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future. – LaToya Jackson

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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart. – Blaise Pascal

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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery. – Richard Powers

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