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Quote by Joseph Conrad
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits st

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. – Joseph Conrad

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It is when we try to grapple with another mans intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun. – Joseph Conrad

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People
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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat? – Joseph Conrad

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Fear
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A mans real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love. – Joseph Conrad

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respect
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Other Quotes from
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of butterflies in the adjoining meadows. – P.G. Wodehouse

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Butterflies

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. – Richard Bach

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Butterflies

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. – Rabindranath Tagore

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From my earliest days I had a passion for science. – Joseph Rotblat

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Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. Theres no particular virtue in that. Democracy isnt a gift. Its a responsibility. – Dalton Trumbo

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There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart – never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening. – Henry Van Dyke

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We are not hungry… Why foist this food upon us? We dont want to be choked. We have enough. – Robert Mugabe

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