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Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food. — Joseph Butler

Love is the most powerful catalyst. It can change a heart and the world. — Debasish Mridha

Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter. — Albert Camus

The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop. — Buffy Sainte-Marie

Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with. — Joseph Butler

Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous. — Joseph Butler

There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of. — Joseph Butler

He will always be my Sir Galahad. — Ava Gardner

The satisfaction that accompanies good acts is itself not the motivation of the act; satisfaction is not the motive, but only the consequence. — Joseph Butler

Happiness does not consist in self-love. — Joseph Butler

Though a man hath the best eyes in the world, he cannot see any way but that which he turns them. — Joseph Butler

Space is going to be commonplace. — Christa McAuliffe

You gotta be cruel to be kind. — William Shakespeare

The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them. — Natasha Lyonne

The first thought is often the best. — Joseph Butler

Broadcasting is plastic; while it can ape the press, it can also emulate the arts. — Louis MacNeice

That which is the foundation of all our hopes and of all our fears; all our hopes and fears which are of any consideration; I mean a Future Life. — Joseph Butler

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice. — Joseph Butler

Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good. — Joseph Butler

Ho Chi Minh and Vietnam were perfect for Lyndon Johnson: 220 million against 18 million, water buffalo and all. No risk, really. — David Douglas Duncan

It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as yet undiscovered. — Joseph Butler

Punitive murder by the police and by vigilantes has existed in all societies at some point, and probably still exists in most. — Teju Cole

Every thing is what it is, and not another thing. — Joseph Butler

I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country. — John Burns

The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery. — Joseph Butler

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived? — Joseph Butler

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before. — James Truslow Adams

It was a relationship with occasional moments of beauty, but one that had never found it's balance. — Guillaume Musso

People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable. — Joseph Butler

I broke my ring finger in a trampoline accident. — Jessie Usher

E all do it. We talk about people we don't like until they become famous. Then we love 'em. — Daniel Black