Jonathan Swift Quotes
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.
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It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.
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I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.
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I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.
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An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
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I came from a Hindi medium school... the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I was top in my class in school, and I got admission in other colleges, but I really wanted to study in St. Xavier's.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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I've made my music so that it could be about anything and everybody - whether it's a guy, a female or a goat - and everybody can relate to that.
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You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
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It's brutal out on the football field.
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When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.
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There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
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Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.
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One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.
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Just get the right syllable in the proper place.
