Jonathan Swift Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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The appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.
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Perfectionist? That's not something I am.
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When I start thinking in the batter's box, that's when I get into trouble.
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Some of the most patriarchal thinkers I know are women. Some of the most feminist thinkers are men.
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Fuzzy thinking is, after all, just one step above not thinking at all. But to take the ideas of serious transformational thinkers and philosophers and throw the "new age" label at them is also abhorrent.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
