Jonathan Swift Quotes
It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.
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Anonymity breeds meanness.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.
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God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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I cut up loads. I always want everything shorter, shorter, shorter.
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But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.
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I'm not interested in the suburbs. The suburbs bore me. And I'm not interested in isolating myself. I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.
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Tritt listened placidly, clearly understanding nothing, but content to be listening; while Odeen, transmitting nothing, was as clearly content to be lecturing.
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Any organism must be treated as-a-whole; in other words, that an organism is not an algebraic sum, a linear function of its elements, but always more than that. It is seemingly little realized, at present, that this simple and innocent-looking statement involves a full structural revision of our language...
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They lived under a just and moderate government, and they admitted that one bond of their fidelity was that their rulers were the better men.
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The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.
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The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.
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I'd like to work more, but I don't just want to do kind of generic characters. I want to do interesting characters, and I'd like to be cast against type.
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Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.
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Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.
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If it were up to me, every job would be somewhere in Canada.
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I am going to begin now a practice of not making recommendations on specific tax and spending proposals.
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All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
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It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.
