Jonathan Swift Quotes
Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.
Jonathan Swift
Quotes to Explore
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
Gail Sheehy
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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.
Zara Phillips
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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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.
P. J. O'Rourke
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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.
Lactantius
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I didn’t have the choice. I needed to finish first or second to beat Felix. So the tactics were pretty simple, felix and I are very good friends and that’s why I can’t rejoice completely. It’s the third time I took the cup away from him under his nose.
Marcel Hirscher
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Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
Madeleine Albright
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Pressure cookers are relatively inexpensive, they're in every kitchen store, your grandma probably had one, but a lot of people don't. A pressure cooker is interesting because by pressurizing the vessel, you're able to cook much hotter than the boiling point of water, and still have water be present.
Nathan Myhrvold
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We're trying to provide a platform for applications. We think that's the next level. We are trying to become the Windows of the internet.
Marc Benioff
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What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
Ferdinand Marcos
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Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.
Jonathan Swift
