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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Life is a mirror of your consistent thoughts.
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People say to me, you have not got stage fright. And if I haven't got stage fright, then I'm going to be comfortable within myself, and then something - I've always been that way and so I'm fighting to get away from that fear.
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I had nothing to lose so I may as well do it my way.
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God is not a supporting actor in our life movie. We exist for his purposes, not the other way around.
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Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.
