Jonathan Swift Quotes
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The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative.
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I really love school, but I'd love to continue acting jobs if I can.
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It does make sense to put on some songs that are relatively short, because radio usually only plays songs that are less than 4 or 5 minutes.
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As a human being, Joan Crawford is a great actress.
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I like to write a lot of satire.
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Satire doesn't effect change.
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Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.
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Satire has been a sanctuary historically monopolized by progressives, originally used as a discreet tool against Western religious fundamentalism.
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A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well.
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The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
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It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence.
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Satire is the disease of art.
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Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel -- it's vulgar.
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I'm a fan. I would have been a fan of Candyman even if I hadn't been in that movie. I'm a huge fan of Star Trek, which is why I was in Star Trek: Voyager - because I begged them to be a part of that lore.
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Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.
