Jonathan Swift Quotes
It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us; it being with the follies of the mind as with weeds of a field, which if destroyed and consumed upon the place where they grow, enrich and improve it more than if none had ever sprung there.

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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!
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I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
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Somebody like Bowie was so interesting because when you got him off stage, he was like a businessman. But on stage, he was just dazzling. It was like watching butterflies grow.
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I've overcome physical and mental brutality - and fought back.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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I feel alive inside only when obstacles are arising that must be overcome and eliminated.
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I have to grow with my audience.
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There will be some things I do well and things I do wrong. But I keep coming. Playing with heart. That's going to help me continue to grow.
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The hardest times to choose love are the very times when you can most grow spiritually. In fact, they are the only times you can grow spiritually!
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Put simply, my vision for AOL is to build the largest and most sophisticated global advertising network while we grow the size and engagement of our worldwide audience.
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Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.
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You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.
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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
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You can grow without destroying the things that you love.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.
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I feel growing up in Mumbai is an advantage, as we grow up speaking so many languages that when we go abroad, it becomes easier to learn new languages.
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Sometimes when you fail, it allows you the opportunity to grow more motivation and get more intense about your training.
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American businessmen have taken advantage of the opportunities which existed in Europe and Europeans seem not to have been aware of.
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Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
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Finding things to wear is what the Internet's for.
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Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-fication. Its validity is the process of its valid-ation.
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It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us; it being with the follies of the mind as with weeds of a field, which if destroyed and consumed upon the place where they grow, enrich and improve it more than if none had ever sprung there.