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Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler

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All progress is based on the universal and innate desire of every organism to live beyond its means.

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler

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Machines, being incapable of fighting by themselves, have managed to make man fight with them.

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler

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The longer a dispute lasts, the further we are from the end.

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler

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The machines evolve and reproduce at a prodigious speed. If we do not declare all-out war on them, it will be too late to resist their dominance.

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler

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The most stubborn people are often the most wrong, like those who have not learned to doubt.

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler

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The man is the only animal that can be friends with the victims he tries to eat until he eats them.

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler

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Very little can be done with faith alone; nothing can be done without it.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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I will die of old age and still not finish understanding the bipedal animal they call man; each individual is a variety of its species.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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Poetry is perhaps enhanced by singing humble things.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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Company is often a relief from miseries.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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Weapons require spirit as much as letters.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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Love and passion easily blind the eyes of understanding.