Jonathan Swift Quotes
Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.
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I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.
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It's jarring to go from one amazing experience to another that feels ordinary. I don't quite know how to explain it. You see the uniqueness of what you've been doing, and disassociating yourself from it and going back to the 'normal' life is tough.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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Unfortunately, modeling takes you with no transition from being a girl to being a business woman.
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Here in America, just as we see such incredible progress happening in one state, we see another state passing absolutely disgusting and oppressive laws against the rights of all sorts of people - transgender people, gay people, women.
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And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake.
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I have one identity, and that's Israeli and Jewish. I don't view myself as an American citizen.
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Black people have been fighting for basic citizenship rights since the inception of the country.
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The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.
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The artist tries to see what there is to be interested in... He has not created something, he has seen something.
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That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, all of it bad!
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If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find out no such case.
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Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open.
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I went to New York to train as a chef, and I had the good or bad fortune, depending on how you describe it, of being right there during 9/11. It was one of the best and the worst experiences.
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Mutos enim nasci et egere omni ratione satius fuisset quam providentiae munera in mutuam perniciem convertere.
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Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.
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I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean empathy, hedonism, a libertarianism.
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We have at our fingertips information that 500 years ago would have made the poorest man a prince.
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Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.
