Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.
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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
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My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
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The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.
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Infosys is an absolute meritocracy. Even in a meritocracy, other things being equal, you have to give opportunity to the more experienced candidate.
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And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.
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After things started to happen here, my choice of material was extremely limited. It was a weird situation.
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I was obsessed with Lil' Bow Wow growing up, and you couldn't see the white of my walls because they were plastered with his photos. This is even more embarrassing: I had a notebook full of facts about Bow Wow and different pictures. I basically made a biography notebook about him and his life when he was, like, 13.
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A lot of times, when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.
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Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the theoretical and the experimental: Experimentation must give way to argument, and argument must have recourse to experimentation.
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Remember you love writing. It wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back.
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However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it.
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No matter how hopeless or bleak things appear, the moment always comes when suddenly our spirit revives, and hope is reborn. That is why we must never give up.
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Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion with which it was made has passed.
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Precision in dress is the neurotic refuge of the perpetually insecure.
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Water benefits the ten thousand things and does not oppose them.
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
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Those who will find here a hold for their souls, an anvil for their hands, and vitality for their hearts, will build both their lives and the land.
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Women began their inner emancipation by their access to literature, by access to the world through books; an access they could not have socially or politically, or of course economically, in the world at large.
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If you hold yourself dear, protect yourself well.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
