Jonathan Swift Quotes
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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
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I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
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I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
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I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.
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Yeah, I like clothes, but I hardly ever go shopping. Hardly ever!
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I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing to have in this business. I'm glad on the one hand that I've got it, but I wish it was more powerful. I wish I had a greater range. I wish it was more accurate at times.
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I think the future takes care of itself.
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Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.
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The secret is to cook the aubergines the day before and let them dry of all the oil they drank in cooking. When you cook aubergine, they eat a lot of oil. It can be very heavy.
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This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.
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I prefer cynical people. Nice guys grow on trees.
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No man can visualize four dimensions, except mathematically … I think in four dimensions, but only abstractly. The human mind can picture these dimensions no more than it can envisage electricity. Nevertheless, they are no less real than electro-magnetism, the force which controls our universe, within, and by which we have our being.
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If ever there were a time there was nothing, there would be nothing now.
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I don't like rock opera with back beats.
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Both sides go the bargaining table holding cards quite close to the chest and bluffing like crazy, .
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To get to play a bad person and do bad things in a safe environment like 'Arrow' was pretty amazing.
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Forgive the person who has caused the most pain in your life and it will make you feel better.
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If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing.
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Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.
