Jonathan Swift Quotes
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What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.
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What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.
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There they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.
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All I'm after is a few square metres to be myself. A space where I can continue to profess my creed: take the ball, give it to a team-mate, my team-mate scores. It's called an assist, and it's my way of spreading happiness.
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I feel a lot closer to music and my relationship with my instrument than I did as a teenager.
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It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible.
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It is very important to be aware that you may never be satistied with your analytic career if you feel that you are restricted to what is narrowly called a ‘scientific’ approach. You will have to be able to have a chance of feeling that the interpretation you give is a beautiful one, or that you get a beautiful response from the patient. This aesthetic element of beauty makes a very difficult situation tolerable.
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The notion that Jews are mythic creatures is well circulating in our culture.
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Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?
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When you put so much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting, and that too is memorable.
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Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
