Jonathan Swift Quotes

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

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• I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.

  

  Yelawolf
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• I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.

  

  Nate Silver
  • New
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• I love being a part of Aqua Teen.

  

  Dana Snyder
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• Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Want
  • You
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• If you're smart and you care about life, you'll take driving seriously.

  

  Victoria Justice
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• Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Nature
  • Soul
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• Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
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• The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
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• Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
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• It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Work
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• You can never get enough of what you don't want.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.

  

  Manal al-Sharif
  • Time
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• In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Life
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• And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Long
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• It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Up
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• We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.

  

  Nate Silver
  • World
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• Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Work
  • Men
  • Live

• My personal relationship with music is an imperfect harmony because I never studied music, but here I am not just writing for bands but full orchestral sections and doing all this composition, and I never learned the right way of doing things so I have a lot of dissonant sounds and things that are brought to my attention, and generally I leave them that way because I like those imperfections.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
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• Money is either a good or bad influence, according to the character of the person who possesses it.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Good
  • Money
  • Character

• Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Men
  • Understood
  • Comedians

• The 'Dangerous' album has producers like Tiny, who to me is very special. Also, Luny Tunes, Nesty La Mente Maestra, Nelly La Arma Secreta, Haze, and El Ingeniero. I wanted to use everyone who makes music in Puerto Rico and beyond to have variety.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Music
  • Me
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• Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Freedom
  • Health
  • Opinion

• Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Politics
  • Understood
  • Corruptions