“Nothing will ever die so long as it knows what to do under the circumstances, in other words so long as it knows its business.”
The Roman Empire
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIII - Unprofessional Sermons
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 160.
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Determinism or Free-will? (1912)
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" Senior Convocation Speech http://www.news.cornell.edu/campus/Olbermann_speech.html," Cornell University (1998-05-23)
“I don’t know what I want.
Nobody knows — or if they do, they don’t know for long.”
"I want everything" http://home.earthlink.net/~2lulah2/everything.htm in What I Want from Life (1934) edited by Edmund George Cousins, p. 108
Context: I don’t know what I want.
Nobody knows — or if they do, they don’t know for long. I mean, you don’t want the same thing long enough for it to be What You Want From Life in capital letters.
Well, maybe some people do. Maybe there's a few simple folks — or maybe a few million, I don't know — who fix their hearts, and their minds, and their everlasting souls on a thing, and keep on all their lives hoping for it. Living for it. Wanting It From Life.
But these are the people who never get it.
Morning Constitutions (2007)
