Jonathan Swift Quotes
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.
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One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.
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When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
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My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, really. I wouldn't say it's a career in fashion. The range is all day-to-day stuff that I'd put on and use myself.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.
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I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium until 2012, I don't care.' I then won Olympic gold.
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Surprisingly, I think if you're known on the Internet, you're probably an introvert.
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Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs.
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It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
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That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.
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I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy.
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I like to talk on the cell when I do interviews. That way, I double my chances of getting brain cancer: from the cell phone, and from the questions.
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It's one of the things that weirdly I always used to like about my job: that expressing the emotions of a writer or someone creative and breathing empathy and life into a character people can then identify with, that they'd feel less alone.
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I believe you can train yourself to become a positive thinker, but you must cultivate a desire to develop the skill of setting personal worthy and realistic goals. I am so thoroughly convinced that if we don’t set goals in our life and learn how to master the technique of living to reach our goals, we can reach a ripe old age and look back on our life only to see that we reached but a small part of our full potential. When you learn to master the principle of setting a goal, you will then be able to make a great difference in the results you attain in this life.
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Count Basie isn't just a man, or even just a band. He's a way of life.
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Be your own advocate.
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Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.
