Jonathan Swift Quotes
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired.
Jonathan Swift
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It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.
Salma Hayek
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Water for People is a non-profit international organization that brings together communities, entrepreneurs, governments - people - to create solutions that empower people to maintain their own reliable water systems and sanitation.
Kat Graham
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Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.
Walter Huston
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If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.
Hanif Kureishi
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
Ian Frazier
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Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.
Origen
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And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, makes complex sugars and foods, changes colors with the seasons, and self-replicates. and then why don't we knock that down and write on it?
William McDonough
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When the student is ready, the messenger appears.
Norman Vincent Peale
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In the dream state, the only essential difference from waking is the relative absence of sensory input, which makes dreaming a special case of perception without sensory input.
Stephen LaBerge
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For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'
Saint Bernard
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You have to be honest about who you are.
Ray Lewis
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired.
Jonathan Swift
