Jonathan Swift Quotes
In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.
Quotes to Explore
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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There's nothing harder than defining oneself.
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The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.
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In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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It is always good to be on the scoresheet.
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We want to support Nashville, support the community there and be a part of it.
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The professed war-weariness among populations who have sent only a small percentage of their sons and daughters to fight in recent wars may derive from a failure to communicate effectively what is at stake in those wars and explain why the efforts are worthy of the risks, resources, and sacrifices necessary to sustain the strategy.
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The movies and the parts I'm being offered are becoming better and better.
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
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It's a lot easier to play in front of quite a lot of strangers than a couple of your friends just because when it's someone that really knows you, it's much more scary.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.
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It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.
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Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.
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Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
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Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.
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I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs.
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This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.
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I just do my job and go home. There's just one or two people I can say are friends that I can call.
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Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.
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I'm an advocate of 'it's not what you are, it's who you are.'
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In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.
