Random Quote
Now for this book I had to learn the world of the Senate which is really for all that's written about the Senate an unknowing world and its mores and the way things work with subcommittees and all. I loved learning about that.
The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security without which it would not be taken due care of.
Quotes By Joseph Butler
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Love of our neighbour then has just the same respect to is no more distant...
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The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his...
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The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of...
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Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects...
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Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness and likewise a variety...
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Compassion is a call a demand of nature to relieve the unhappy as hunger is...
Quotes About Loneliness
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But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave...
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I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And...
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I have two ideas for novels at the moment neither of them all that...
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Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people...
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have...
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I can support going in after Saddam Hussein but I want to make sure I don't...
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I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday let alone 10 years ago.