"It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all."
-Samuel Butler
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"A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.“
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"Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost."
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"Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness."
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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."
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"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
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"Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons."
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"Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall."
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"Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently."
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"The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power."
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"We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit."
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