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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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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Precision in dress is the neurotic refuge of the perpetually insecure.
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If you have been wise and successful I congratulate you. Unless you are unable to forget how successful you have been, then I pity you.
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Hope in this world bleeds out of the barrel of a gun.
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Heal me, oh Lord, I will be healed. Save me, oh Lord, I will be saved. Bless me, oh Lord, I will be blessed. Free me, oh Lord, I will be free
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Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.
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I'm never afraid of research. I relish it!
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We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.
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I've always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we're young, we don't understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it's a blessing to have that support at home.
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If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
