Jonathan Swift Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.
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The essence of the game is not "fun," but the soul-satisfying awareness that comes from communal work and sacrifice.
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People will be able to raise their concerns: what are local officers doing about the drug dealing in the local park? What's happening about the pub where all the trouble is? And the police will have to respond.
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Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.
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I was a '90s kid, so I missed 'Jem and the Holograms.' But once I delved into the whole world of it, I realized it's iconic. There's incredible dancing in the movie, too.
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There's 2 things I love in this world: Burritos and Murder.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
