A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

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"Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers, we more than gain in fruits."

- Samuel Butler

Balance

"Friendship is like money—easier made than kept."

- Samuel Butler

Relationships

"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."

- Samuel Butler

Creativity

"To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead."

- Samuel Butler

Reflection

"Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only."

- Samuel Butler

Gratitude

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"It is at the moment of death that humanity has value."

- Archer

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"Religion, ideology, resources, land, spite, love or just because… No matter how pathetic the reason, it’s enough to start a war. War will never cease to exist… reasons can be thought up after the fact… Human nature pursues strife."

- Paine

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"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves."

- Eric Sevareid

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"Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!"

- Theodor Seuss Geisel

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"Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home."

- G.K. Chesterton

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