Jonathan Swift Quotes
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.
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Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.
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When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.
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Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.
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News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.
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I have always tried my best to do what I thought was the right thing at the time.
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I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
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I have nothing against the veil. And I think that, wrongly, many in the West look at the veil as a symbol of oppression. Now, as long as a woman chooses to wear the veil, because that's her belief and because of her own - that's a personal relationship with God, so she should be free to dress in whichever way she wants.
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The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.
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Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
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Mr. D, why is you doin' the Big Nasty on my bed?!
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It is impossible that each of the elements should be infinite. For that is body which has interval on all sides; and that is infinite which has extension without bound.
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'There is often greater martyrdom to live for the love of, whether man or an ideal, than to die' is a motto of the Mahatmas.
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My sisters are very academically inclined so whenever they would fix me up, it would always be from someone in their world, people they would find attractive. When they came to the door in suits, it was over.
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I have to have three or four books going simultaneously. If I'm not impressed in the first 20 pages, I don't bother reading the rest, especially with novels. I'm not a book-club style reader. I'm not looking for life lessons or wanting people to think I'm smart because I'm reading a certain book.
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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour, and survival a thing beyond the bounds of possibility.
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My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.
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A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.
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Today, local economies are being destroyed by the 'pluralistic,' displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.
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It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
