Jonathan Swift Quotes
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
Quotes to Explore
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When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.
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It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
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If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.
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You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.
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Failure is a part of success.
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I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.
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We discover and invent new ways of finding out the same old things.
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I think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge - that's part of the reason why term limits are a really useful thing.
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Everything in the world is actually connected. That means, even if we get separated, we'll never be alone
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It's very hard for someone who makes $1,000 a year or some who makes less than $1 a day to care about the environment.
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It's not going to happen through technology or our intellectual abilities but only through prayer. When we pray, God works. We believe God blesses churches that bless missions.
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Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.
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Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. Sometimes you run over a drunk who's lain down and fallen asleep on the warm pavement. I mean, do you keep going, or what?
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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
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Our training as a team is on pace. We are looking better than we did a year ago.
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If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
