John Gay Quotes
'T is woman that seduces all mankind; By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.
John Gay
Quotes to Explore
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There are very few great poets in the world.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall
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The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference to inequality are now seen as important causes of the greatest economic crash since the 1930s.
Frances O'Grady
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It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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In the past, if you did film, you couldn't do stage, and if you did film, you certainly didn't do television. You had to pick what you wanted to be. Now it seems like we can bounce around, not only between genres, but between mediums, and I like that. I like change and I like a good story.
Garret Dillahunt
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As a kid, I'd get up at 3 in the morning during school vacations to help my father on his bakery-truck route. He didn't get a vacation from that schedule.
Irv Kupcinet
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There's a truth about public service that is often unspoken and rarely understood - that the role of our elected officials is about much more than balancing budgets and ensuring the delivery of essential services.
J. B. Pritzker
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
Walter Savage Landor
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Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top.
Daniel Berrigan
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All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
Immanuel Kant
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'T is woman that seduces all mankind; By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.
John Gay