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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that. — Octavia Butler
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. — Samuel Butler
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… — Samuel Butler
I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable. — Samuel Butler
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his… — Samuel Butler
My school reports always used to point out that my concentration levels were appalling. I never listened in class because I was always daydreaming about… — Jenson Button
The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells. The… — Alvar Aalto
On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces… — A. S. Byatt
Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law… — Robert Byrd
We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and… — Robert Byrd
I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car. — David Byrne
I've never had writer's block. — David Byrne
Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a… — Lord Byron
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship. — Lord Byron
A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands. — Lord Byron
A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends. — Lord Byron
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all. — Lord Byron
If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company. — Lord Byron
They never fail who die in a great cause. — Lord Byron

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