Jonathan Swift Quotes
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I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defense, should one think of killing any animal.
Morarji Desai
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Closeness means you get hurt; closeness means letting down your defences and letting people see the tender skin under the carapace.
Cathy Kelly
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Sometimes the gifts of God aren't wrapped as we expect.
Yasmin Mogahed
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They can see their neighbors. Roosters and dogs can be heard from there. Still, they will age and die without visiting one another.
Lao Tzu
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Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.
Wallace Stegner
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Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.
Jane Austen
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As the popularity of science-fiction increases, so inevitably does the volume of clownish imprecation against it.
Edmund Crispin
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Mathematical thinking is not the same as doing mathematics - at least not as mathematics is typically presented in our school system. School math typically focuses on learning procedures to solve highly stereotyped problems. Professional mathematicians think a certain way to solve real problems, problems that can arise from the everyday world, or from science, or from within mathematics itself. The key to success in school math is to learn to think inside-the-box. In contrast, a key feature of mathematical thinking is thinking outside-the-box - a valuable ability in today's world.
Keith Devlin
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With or without the Royals, we are not Americans. Nor are we British. Or French. Or Void. We are something else. And the sooner we define this, the better.
Will Ferguson
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Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.
William Shakespeare
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Novalee watched his lips shape the words...the sounds, like whispered secrets, hanging in the air.
Billie Letts
