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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If you lack technique you lose the freedom to create.
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It is easiest to lose your way in the forest after it is cut.
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The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power - power in its most despotic exercise - absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms - and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses.
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The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a death toll greater than all the wars of the 20th Century combined. The virus that wreaked this havoc apparently developed in birds, and then jumped to people. In other words, it was avian flu.
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You have only one way to convince others, listen to them.
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When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.
