Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.
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I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.
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And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.
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I certainly support civil unions.
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Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.
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But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.
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Ever since I was 10 years old doing jiu-jitsu, I've done well against the tall guys.
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From the day war conquered the skies, nothing could check its progress.
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'Think from outside the box, collapse the box and take a fucking knife to it.'
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I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness.
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Man is an eternal sophomore.
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The truth was, I needed to impress them. I knew from my previous discussions with Ben that you needed money or brains to get into the University. The more of one you had, the less of the other you needed.
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Zwey Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust.
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One of the most difficult of the philosopher's tasks is to find out where the shoe pinches.
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It’s still a pretty sexist world out there and someone’s got to stand up and say something.
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As we all know, there is inner beauty and outer beauty. If we examine inner beauty, to me there is nothing more beautiful than inner peace, in a man or a woman.
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No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
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The worst job I ever had was when I had to try to sell a service for medical waste treatment.
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I adore life but I dont fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.
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If you give Chip a boundary, he's going to break that boundary. If you give him a rule, he's not going to follow it. And if you tell him, 'You can't go over this line,' he's going to put his toe over it.
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Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youth's sweet-scented manuscript should close! The Nightingale that in the branches sang, Ah, whence, and whither flown again, who knows!
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Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
