Jonathan Swift Quotes
It is pleasant to observe how free the present age is in laying taxes on the next. "Future ages shall talk of this; they shall be famous to all posterity;" whereas their time and thoughts will be taken up about present things, as ours are now.
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I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.
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To me, the funnest part of wrestling is evolving. If you stay the same all the time, you're eventually going to be left behind.
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We're a very iterative company, so we jump on basically all new technology.
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Cute girls and burgers. What more can you ask for? That's why we live in America.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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I used to be fast and loose with the term 'country' because I didn't know what else to call my music. I still don't.
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I liked George Weiss when he was with the Yankees. He loved the Old Timers' Day. He loved it. And he invited all these people to come, all these players to come.
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We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
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It's dangerous to be anybody popular.
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Sharing the stage while singing my songs was a bit of a daunting prospect.
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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
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The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.
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Oh, I think, watching Magic, him being one of my... I'm one of his biggest fans, and just trying to emulate what he did, going out on the playground, and also playing with older guys.
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In 1939, Fitzroy Maclean, a gangly Highland aristocrat in his early 30s, was serving as a British diplomat in the U.S.S.R. Disgusted by the Soviet show trials, he quit the Foreign Service and would go on to serve with Tito's partisans fighting the Germans in Yugoslavia.
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The acceleration of the number of traders buying into the market in the inflating bubble captures the oft-quoted observation that bubbles are times when the 'greater fool theory' applies.
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Iran is a major threat to the well-being of Europe and America just as much as it is for the state of Israel.
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It is pleasant to observe how free the present age is in laying taxes on the next. "Future ages shall talk of this; they shall be famous to all posterity;" whereas their time and thoughts will be taken up about present things, as ours are now.
