Jonathan Swift Quotes
When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.
Quotes to Explore
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We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us through our days – our unvarnished, untutored, ever-present, inborn agency.
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There are so many misperceptions and stereotypes out there that I would love to see clarified one day.
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Many have no desire to be in it, because their work does not interest them, providing them with neither challenge nor satisfaction, and has no other merit in their eyes than that it leads to a pay-packet at the end of the week.
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The final mystery is oneself.
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Delay is the enemy of progress.
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Imitate the magnificent trees that speak no word of their rapture, but only breathe largely the luminous breeze.
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The bird that has taught its nestling to fly does not try to keep it in the nest, when it is once able to take care of itself.
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Even if you make a mistake, you can go back and do the right thing.
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I said I'd be honest, I never said I'd be consistant.
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The electric guitar was a big step for me, but I didn't spend a lot of time trying to adjust. It wasn't like, 'Hey, little lady, come strap on this here big guitar.' We took it in steps as much as possible.
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It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.
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I've always loved life, and I've never known what's ahead. I love not knowing what might be round the corner. I love serendipity.
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We collect the visual history of today’s earth. To me, visual history is more important than art. The function of photography is to leave documentation for coming centuries.
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The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue, posits the separation as already effected, and thrusts into oblivion all those stammered, imperfect words without fixed syntax in which the exchange between madness and reason was made. The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue of reason about madness, has been established only on the basis of such a silence.
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When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.
