Jonathan Swift Quotes
It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.
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But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.
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I know I don't fit in in L.A. because I look my age.
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Jazz shouldn't have any mandates. Jazz is not supposed to be something that's required to sound like jazz. For me, the word 'jazz' means, 'I dare you.'
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So just to be clear, I'm not going to sign any package that somehow prevents the top rate from going up for folks at the top 2 percent.
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I'm amazed when I see mothers wearing high heels. If your kids run off you can't run after them.
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There should be a children's song: 'If you're happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let your dad sleep'.
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There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.
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Man has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child king, long enough. And as his empire crumbles, my precious black widow shall rise as his most fitting successor.
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[Yasuhiro] Yamashita is a respected judo master not only in Japan but across the world. To me, he is an example of an outstanding athlete and a very good man.
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A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange.... Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
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...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged.
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You see mock death in movies every day, but when it really happens, you're not used to it. Most things in life, you get better the more that you do them, but this is one of those things you don't really want to get any better at.
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Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.
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What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and the sea has borne you up. At long last, are you ready for dry land? Are you ready to drag yourself ashore?
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It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.
