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[Quote No.35267] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[The first step from subjective perception to objective truth is skeptical doubt:] The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust." - Samuel Butler

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[Quote No.37663] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises." - Samuel Butler II
(1835 - 1902), English novelist, translator, and author
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[Quote No.43275] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. [So persisting past errors and self-correcting are required.]" - Samuel Butler

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[Quote No.45264] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust [skepticism]." - Samuel Butler

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[Quote No.3529] Need Area: Mind > Plan
"Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises." - Samuel Butler

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[Quote No.6161] Need Area: Mind > Persist
"Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. " - Samuel Butler

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[Quote No.10136] Need Area: Mind > Persist
"Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct...[also it is unlikely to be beautiful until repeatedly polished] " - Samuel Butler

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[Quote No.12267] Need Area: Mind > Persist
"You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it." - Samuel Butler
English poet
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[Quote No.12826] Need Area: Mind > Persist
"Life is not an exact science, it is an art. " - Samuel Butler

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[Quote No.43276] Need Area: Mind > Persist
"Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. [So persisting past errors and self-correcting are required!]" - Samuel Butler

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[Quote No.45009] Need Area: Body > General
"If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death." - Samuel Butler

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[Quote No.35268] Need Area: Money > Invest
"The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust!" - Samuel Butler

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[Quote No.37664] Need Area: Money > Invest
"[The investing] Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises." - Samuel Butler II
(1835 - 1902), English novelist, translator, and author
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[Quote No.180] Need Area: Money > General
"Money is the symbol of duty, it is the sacrament of having done for Mankind that which Mankind wanted." - Samuel Butler
[1835-1902], English author
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[Quote No.4099] Need Area: Money > General
"It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. " - Samuel Butler

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[Quote No.33927] Need Area: Money > General
"The money [and contribution to society women and] men make lives after them." - Samuel Butler

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[Quote No.60058] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"Every new idea has something of the pain and peril of childbirth about it." - Samuel Butler

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[Quote No.67016] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"[Beware vanity; stay humble; Remember Lord Acton's axiom that 'Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely' can also be summarized in this little poem:]
Authority intoxicates,
And makes mere sots of magistrates;
The fumes of it invade the brain,
And make men giddy, proud and vain.

" - Samuel Butler
(1835-1902) Victorian-era English author.
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[Quote No.67296] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"[Be and stay humble. Remember Lord Acton's quote 'Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely'. Here is a similar poem about the dangers of not being humble when powerful:]
Authority intoxicates,
And makes mere sots of magistrates;
The fumes of it invade the brain,
And make men giddy, proud and vain.

" - Samuel Butler
(1835-1902) Victorian-era English author.
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[Quote No.4457] Need Area: Work > Make
"Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. " - Samuel Butler

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[Quote No.7133] Need Area: Work > General
"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. " - Samuel Butler

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[Quote No.24552] Need Area: Work > General
"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself." - Samuel Butler

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[Quote No.32299] Need Area: Work > General
"Every man's [person's] work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself [themselves]." - Samuel Butler

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[Quote No.60787] Need Area: Work > General
"[Vocation and career:] Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself." - Samuel Butler

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[Quote No.11672] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. " - Samuel Butler

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[Quote No.26546] Need Area: Property > General
"[Unfortunately] People care more about being thought to have taste [in clothes, art, etc] than about being thought either good, clever or amiable." - Samuel Butler

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[Quote No.522] Need Area: Friends > Friends
"Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. " - Samuel Butler

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[Quote No.16348] Need Area: Friends > Friends
"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too." - Samuel Butler
(1612 - 1680) English poet
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[Quote No.10561] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"Truth is generally kindness, but where the two diverge and collide, kindness should override truth. " - Samuel Butler

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[Quote No.14507] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"We are not [so much] won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself. [The messenger is a big part of any message]" - Samuel Butler
(1612-1680) English poet
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[Quote No.19395] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"[Poem:]

A man convinced against his will,
Is of the same opinion still.

" - Samuel Butler
(1612 - 1680) English poet
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[Quote No.21885] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"It is tact that is golden, not silence." - Samuel Butler

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[Quote No.22808] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"Neither irony or sarcasm is [rational] argument." - Samuel Butler

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[Quote No.27468] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"Neither irony or sarcasm is argument." - Samuel Butler

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[Quote No.33264] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper." - Samuel Butler

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[Quote No.35558] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still." - Samuel Butler

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[Quote No.48622] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence. " - Samuel Butler

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[Quote No.17925] Need Area: Friends > General
"In law nothing is certain but the expense." - Samuel Butler

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[Quote No.28477] Need Area: Friends > General
"In law, nothing is certain but the expense." - Samuel Butler

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[Quote No.61114] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Poem about: disagreement, conflict and the futility of using force:]

He that complies against his will,
Is of his own opinion still.

" - Samuel Butler
(1835-1902)
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[Quote No.67015] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Small, limited government versus large, unlimited, power-hungry, interventionist government; Remember Lord Acton's axiom that 'Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely' can also be summarized in this little poem:]
Authority intoxicates,
And makes mere sots of magistrates;
The fumes of it invade the brain,
And make men giddy, proud and vain.

" - Samuel Butler
(1835-1902) Victorian-era English author.
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[Quote No.19144] Need Area: Fun > Satisfaction
"The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places." - Samuel Butler
(1612 - 1680) English poet
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[Quote No.38175] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"Happiness and misery consist in a progression towards better or worse; it does not matter how high up or low down you are, it depends not on this, but on the direction in which you are tending." - Samuel Butler

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[Quote No.14798] Need Area: Fun > Experiences
"The man, who lets himself be bored, is even more contemptible than the bore." - Samuel Butler
(1612-1680) English poet
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[Quote No.19426] Need Area: Fun > Experiences
"Our latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than a great sorrow ten years gone. [for we live in the present moment, which is where our emotions live.]" - Samuel Butler
(1612 - 1680) English poet
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[Quote No.3335] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them." - Samuel Butler

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[Quote No.35269] Need Area: Fun > TV/movies
"The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines [media] is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust." - Samuel Butler

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