Jonathan Swift Quotes
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
Jonathan Swift
Quotes to Explore
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After things started to happen here, my choice of material was extremely limited. It was a weird situation.
Nancy Sinatra
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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.
Samira Wiley
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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.
Dan Pink
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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.
Gaston Bachelard
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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.
Alison Louise Kennedy
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However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it.
Andrew Wiles
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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.
Daisaku Ikeda
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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.
Brian Tracy
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Precision in dress is the neurotic refuge of the perpetually insecure.
G. Bruce Boyer
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Whoever uses force without Right ... puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.
John Locke
Nazareth
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That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound.
Adam Jones
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
Dana Brunetti
