Jonathan Swift Quotes
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I don't like allegories.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.
Warren Christopher
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
Dakota Fanning
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I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun.
Paris Hilton
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
Jack White
The White Stripes
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
Iris Chang
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His (Deschamps’) complaint of court life was the same as is made of government at the top in any age: it was composed of hypocrisy, flattery, lying, paying and betraying; it was where calumny and cupidity reigned, common sense lacked, truth dared not appear, and where to survive one had to be deaf, blind, and dumb.
Barbara W. Tuchman
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I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over.
Umberto Eco
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What a man can be the next minute bears no relation to what he is or what he was the minute before.
Walker Percy
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The nature of this melancholy becomes clearer, once one asks the question, with whom does the historical writer of historicism actually empathize. The answer is irrefutably with the victor. Those who currently rule are however the heirs of all those who have ever been victorious. Empathy with the victors thus comes to benefit the current rulers every time.
Walter Benjamin
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Owen says my book will be forgotten in 10 years; perhaps so, but, with such a list of prestigious scientific supporters, I feel convinced that the subject will not.
Charles Darwin
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Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.
Arthur Symons
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If I'm who I am because I'm who I am and you're who you are because you are who you are, then I'm who I am and you're who you are. If, on the other hand, I'm who I am because you're who you are, and if you're who you are because I'm who I am, then I'm not who I am and you're not who you are.
Yasmina Reza
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Most entrepreneurs who have the guts to take on a big challenge are a lot like Babe Ruth - they set records for both home runs and strike outs.
T. J. Rodgers
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Can anyone be so foolish as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads, or places where things may be hanging downwards, trees growing backwards, or rain falling upwards? Where is the marvel of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon if we are to allow of a hanging world at the Antipodes?
Lactantius
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What freezings I have felt, what dark days seen,
What old December's bareness everywhere!
William Shakespeare
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Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
Jonathan Swift
