Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
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I'm one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.
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Presidents make their hard decisions and then abide forever with their mistakes and regrets.
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Harry S. Truman had his moods. His birthplace is the only tourist attraction in America where you don't see Japanese with cameras.
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Mi dignidad le pide a quien no me hace daño que no me haga daño, y a quien me hace daño no le pide nada.
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Estoy en el ayer, en el hoy. ¿Y en mañana? En el mañana estuve.
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Well, better expelled and able to defend yourselves than sitting safely in school without a clue," said Sirius.
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Apparently, the people in the [George W.] Bush administration who wanted to confront me on this could not spell my name correctly. They wanted to send a series of emails thinking that perhaps MSNBC was perhaps favorable to the Bush administration. They thought that they could send me a series of questions or talking points to disprove Joe Wilson with.
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I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art.
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He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, is not credited even when he speaks the truth.
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There will always be critics of the potato because it is lowly and humble, ... But it still represents $2 billion of revenue a year in the state of Idaho -- and thousands of jobs.
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The branches of mathematics are as various as the sciences to which they belong, and each subject of physical enquiry has its appropriate mathematics. In every form of material manifestation, there is a corresponding form of human thought, so that the human mind is as wide in its range of thought as the physical universe in which it thinks.
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We have a great objective - the light on the hill - which we aim to reach by working for the betterment of mankind not only here but anywhere we may give a helping hand. If it were not for that, the Labour movement would not be worth fighting for.
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I'm just trying to figure out the right balance between making fans feel good and also maintaining some dignity for myself in the process.
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I didn't add any new elements to the modern synthetic theory to speak of. I just modified things so that people could understand how things were in the plant world
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Annoyance and pathos warred in my breast, and after a short struggle, annoyance punched pathos in the snout like the voracious shark it was.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
