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Quotes
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Jim Butcher
"Survival was not enough. One had to live."
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Jim Butcher
#Survival Quotes
#Enough Quotes
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“I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor”
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“Most of us owe instead of own. And the less the economy needs our labor, the less able we are to "save" our way to capital ownership.”
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“In the drawing room [of the Queen's palace] hung a Venus and Cupid by Michaelangelo, in which, instead of a bit of drapery, the painter has placed Cupid's foot between Venus's thighs. Queen Caroline asked General Guise, an old connoisseur, if it was not a very fine piece? He replied "Madam, the painter was a fool, for he has placed the foot where the hand should be.”
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“Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother”
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“But spirituality, it seems to me, when answering the question, "Why should I be good? Why should I care for others?" says, "Because that is the best, most fulfilling way to live" Whether or not you receive an award or a payment is incidental. You are good and kind and loving because it is right, even though it is difficult sometimes. It fulfills the highest law, to treat others as we wish to be treated.”
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“I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.”
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“Life is the offspring of death.”
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“Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.”