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.

  

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

  

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• I love being a part of Aqua Teen.

  

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

  

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

  

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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
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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.

  

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

  

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

  

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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.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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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.

  

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

  

  Nate Silver
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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
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• I myself have not met a self‐confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit, like coming from the middle class or the Middle West, those two gloomy seedbeds of talent), yet hardly a day passes that I don't read another attack on the “typical liberal” — as it might be announcing a pest of dinosaurs or a plague of unicorns.

  

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• Call Him by whatever name you will, and He will respond.

  

  Dada Vaswani
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• Looking back at the worst times, it always seems that they were times in which there were people who believed with absolute faith and absolute dogmatism in something. And they were so serious in this matter that they insisted that the rest of the world agree with them. And then they would do things that were directly inconsistent with their own beliefs in order to maintain that what they said was true.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • World
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  • Belief

• Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.

  

  Monica Edwards
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• I have to say, I'm still surprised anyone's nice to me, that anyone talks to me. But I think people understand that other people go through things. We're all a bit gonzo, and you're allowed to take a little time to get your head on straight.

  

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

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Politics
  • Understood
  • Corruptions