Jonathan Swift Quotes
The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.
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If you have to improve your fuel efficiency every year, it leads to innovation.
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My whole career's been kind of crazy, so you can't really surprise me.
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Divorce can be tough when the woman is the breadwinner. But the Lord can make the dark light.
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We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be.
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The scope of the disaster is much larger than first understood. We have heard the appeal for assistance and we are ready to do our part. We urge other donors to do the same.
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It only confirms me in my belief that there is no Swaraj without a settlement with the Mussalmans.
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His friends he loved. His direst earthly foe - Cats-I believe he did but feign to hate. My hand will miss the insinuated nose, Mine eyes the tail that wagged contempt at Fate.
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Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around the globe - from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia.
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The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.
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Only human, after all.
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It would take them three days to tape a thirty minute show, and you just got so worn out, you did it however they wanted, just to get it over with.
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I started off as many fathers do. I enjoyed the good bits, but I was wary of the responsibility. But now I love being a dad.
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I went to every game last year so I know who he is.
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Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element.
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Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.
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A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur.
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I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.
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I've always looked for the perfect life to step into. I've taken all the paths to get where I wanted.But no matter where I go, I still come home me.
