Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He recites poetry; he finds things that 'America sucks' rhymes with.
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The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you.
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I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.
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Maybe Hell ain't a place meant for us to Burn, maybe Earth is Hell and just a place for us to Learn.
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It's not a sightseeing tour, I can tell you that. Ian Thorpe says it's the best place in the world to train.
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Essence has been home for so many of us for so many years. I always say that Essence was the first place that I felt I was a pretty black girl.
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Just get the right syllable in the proper place.
