Jonathan Swift Quotes
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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I still have a young attitude.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.
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Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.
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This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
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Catholic schools prepare every student to meet the challenges of their future by developing their mind, yes, but also their body and their soul and spirit.
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I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.
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I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.
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Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.
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There is no body of ancient literature in the world which enjoys such a wealth of good textual attestation as the New Testament.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
