Jonathan Swift Quotes
Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.
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You have to push yourself when you're older because it's very easy to fall into the trap. You start to fall apart - you just have to do your best to paste yourself together. I think doing things and being active is very important. When your mind is busy, you don't hurt so much.
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If you don't know Tom Lehrer, you should - in addition to being a classical pianist, mathematician, songwriter, satirist, researcher at Los Alamos and, he claims, inventor of the Jell-O shot, he is just delightfully funny and graceful.
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My hairstyle is not common in India, where my parents come from.
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American liberty is a religion. It is a thing of the spirit.
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"You do not really love me — you love nobody. Is that not true?" "Maybe," said Siddhartha wearily. "I am like you. You cannot love either, otherwise how could you practice love as an art? Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can — that is their secret."
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My time is being shared with my fans and the people of the world, while I have got children growing with a lot of days of not seeing their father.
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People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.
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The Bible is God's love letter to us.
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I am full of optimism. The world hasn't beaten it out of me yet. And I'm going to work very hard to make sure that they don't.
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I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it's fine.
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You can't really sit around when you're sore. You've got to get up and work all that lactic acid out.
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The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.
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A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
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Sex energy is the creative energy of all creative geniuses.
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Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.
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Allegory is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently is fitted only to the most exalted geniuses.
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Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.
