Jonathan Swift Quotes
Say, Britain, could you ever boast, Three poets in an age at most? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays in fifty years.
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I champion sensibly designed racial affirmative action, not because I have benefited from it personally - though I have. I support it because, on balance, it is conducive to the public good.
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Tackling still comes down to leverage and owning that leverage and making your hits.
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Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
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I think it's important to surrender to situations that take you out of your comfort zone.
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I like anything that's edible.
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I don't kid myself in thinking that I'm on the front lines. I know the people who are on the front lines. I mean there are people in some freakin' significant places making on-the-ground social front line change. I've marched. I've put feet on the ground for what I believe and what I'm against with no compromise. And there are people who are risking a whole hell of a lot more than me to make change, that's for damn sure.
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Now I was joking, so I hope everybody in Dallas - because I've got a lot of buddies there - I hope they all took it as a joke. But to anybody that didn't, I apologized.
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I'm always thinking about women, and what we need to hear. It's difficult being a woman. It's so much pressure, and we need that support sometimes and we need that escape sometimes.
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The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.
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I think they're all trying to see who can walk through the coldest or hottest shower. Not sure which.
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Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.
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As the pleasures of the body are the ones which we most often meet with, and as all men are capable of these, these have usurped the family title; and some men think these are the only pleasures that exist, because they are the only ones which they know.
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No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much other material to write about.
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For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.
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I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.
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But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.
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Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this firm persuasion removes mountains; but many are not capable of firm persuasion of anything.
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I never thought that I would sell to young people, but now girls who are 14 and 15 buy my shoes.
