"Is life worth living? This is a question……" — Samuel Butler
"Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man."
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228 Quotes by Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler has 228 quotes on this site.
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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to…
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want…
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till…
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will…
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Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is…
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come…
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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for…
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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…
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he…
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More Embryo Quotes
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one of 59 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Now, an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but, in fact, the embryo contains the unique information…
— Todd Akin
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Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.
— Deepak Chopra
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The distinguishing of the strata, or layers, in the embryonic membrane was a turning-point in the study of the history…
— Karl Ernst von Baer
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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the…
— Marcus Aurelius
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It is therefore proper to acknowledge that the first filaments of the chick preexist in the egg and have a…
— Marcello Malpighi
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I strongly oppose cloning, as do most Americans. We recoil at the idea of growing human beings for spare body…
— George W. Bush
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Little by little, wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say. From an embryo whose nourishment…
— Rumi
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On daughter Liza Minnelli: I think she decided to go into show business when she was an embryo, she kicked…
— Judy Garland
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Your brain never stops developing and changing. It's been doing it from the time your were an embryo, and will…
— James Trefil
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When I saw the embryo, I suddenly realized there was such a small difference between it and my daughters. I…
— Shinya Yamanaka
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Society does not need more children; but it does need more loved children. Quite literally, we cannot afford unloved children…
— Garrett Hardin
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I hate to say I'm a Cinderfella, but I've been watching the Globes since I was an embryo. I got…
— Chris Colfer
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