An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Samuel Butler

Apology Books Case Devil

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Beauty is boring because it is predictable.

Umberto Eco

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

Samuel Butler

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People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

Eckhart Tolle

Anticipation Except Future Memory

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At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

Umberto Eco

Certain Children Decided Had

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Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

Eckhart Tolle

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When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.

Umberto Eco

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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

Samuel Butler

Death Life Must Neither

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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

Eckhart Tolle

Eventually Expectation Find Future

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People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Eckhart Tolle

Anxiety Becomes Dwell Future

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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

Samuel Butler

Because Excluded Felicity General

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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.

U Thant

Diversity Goal Make Only

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The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

Eckhart Tolle

Being Essence Innermost Soul

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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

Samuel Butler

Catch Cold Fear Lest

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Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

U Thant

Being Deserves Each Even

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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

Samuel Butler

Fatal God His Own

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The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

Eckhart Tolle

Accurately Becomes Destructive However

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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Samuel Butler

Bona Doing Falls Ground

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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Samuel Butler

Best Done Easy Forgive

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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

U Thant

Begin Built Compassion Love

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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

Samuel Butler

Appeal Like Logic Perish

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

Samuel Butler

Abstinence Condemns Good Half

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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

Samuel Butler

Conviction Man Nothing Serious

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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.

U Thant

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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

Samuel Butler

Always Company Doing Enjoy

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Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I would not put me back into a shuttle - and no other astronaut. The confidence is shaken.

U Thant

Astronaut Back Confidence Every

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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

Samuel Butler

Christian Doubted Equally General

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The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

Samuel Butler

Common Lord Sense Shared

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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

Samuel Butler

Able Culture Enough First

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Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal.

Uma Thurman

Average Blonde Blue Blue Eyes

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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

Samuel Butler

Else Enough Fools Knave

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I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

Uma Thurman

Adolescence Convinced Everyone First

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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

Samuel Butler

Bad Cannot Does Forget

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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.

Uma Thurman

Actor Business Crazy Dead

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Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.

Uma Thurman

Challenging Difficult Ever Extraordinary

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Life is one long process of getting tired.

Samuel Butler

Getting Life Long Process

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Even, today, when people tell me I'm beautiful, I do not believe a word of it.

Uma Thurman

Beautiful Believe Even Me

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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Samuel Butler

Against Healthy Instinct Like

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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Samuel Butler

Always Conclusions Contrary Enough

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It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.

Uma Thurman

Better Cheats Does Relationship

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When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.

Uma Thurman

Answer Any Asked Because

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Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.

Uma Thurman

Basically Buy Got Job

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Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.

Uma Thurman

Before Boundaries Child Had

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It's hard sometimes if you think a character should look a certain way and you're being pushed to do it differently. I've had fights over that. That's why it's so important that you work with good people.

Uma Thurman

Being Certain Certain Way Character

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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.

Uma Thurman

About All Religions Am Buddhism

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I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.

Uma Thurman

Athletic Bright Funny Just

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I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need.

Uma Thurman

Daughter Garden Hang Happy

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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.

Uma Thurman

Left Never Set Until

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I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.

Uma Thurman

Austin Austin Powers Comic Like

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My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.

Uma Thurman

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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Samuel Butler

Umberto Eco

Samuel Butler

People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

Eckhart Tolle

At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

Umberto Eco

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

Eckhart Tolle

When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.

Umberto Eco

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

Samuel Butler

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

Eckhart Tolle

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Eckhart Tolle

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

Samuel Butler

U Thant

The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

Eckhart Tolle

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

Samuel Butler

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

U Thant

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

Samuel Butler

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

Eckhart Tolle

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Samuel Butler

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Samuel Butler

U Thant

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

Samuel Butler

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

Samuel Butler

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

Samuel Butler

I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.

U Thant

Samuel Butler

Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I would not put me back into a shuttle - and no other astronaut. The confidence is shaken.

U Thant

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

Samuel Butler

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

Samuel Butler

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

Samuel Butler

Uma Thurman

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

Samuel Butler

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

Uma Thurman

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

Samuel Butler

Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.

Uma Thurman

Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.

Uma Thurman

Life is one long process of getting tired.

Samuel Butler

Even, today, when people tell me I'm beautiful, I do not believe a word of it.

Uma Thurman

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Samuel Butler

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Samuel Butler

It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.

Uma Thurman

When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.