Jonathan Swift Quotes
What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
Jonathan Swift
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
Iris Murdoch
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A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.
Cameron Sinclair
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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
Walter Bagehot
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The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights-the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn.
Walter Bagehot
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When we look at the pay of men and women who do work equal hours, two discoveries are quite astonishing: -When women and men work less than 40 hours a week, the women earn more than the men; -When men and women work more than 40, the men earn more than the women.
Warren Farrell
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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
Jack McDevitt
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They say in the military that a good battle plan can last as long as five minutes in real fighting. After that, it comes down to if the general is favored by fate and the spirits.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.
Alan Watts
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At the root of the assault on our liberties is, in fact, an assault on our character-an assault that assumes that we are not good enough to be free, and that aims to make sure that we are no longer strong enough, courageous enough, disciplined enough to be a free people.
Alan Keyes
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There was such sanity in his voice; a politician’s sanity, as he sold his flock the wisdom of the bomb. This soulless certainty was more chilling than hysteria or malice.
Clive Barker
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Like a lot of people, I sold my first script in graduate school at UCLA, a 'Joan of Arc' for producer Joel Silver.
Laeta Kalogridis
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You have to persevere, you have to just not give up, and you have to know what you want. You have to be able to see your dream.
Dawn Steel
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster
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I think they're bogus, honestly. How utter garbage like Crash and Million Dollar Baby can win best picture, where true works of art such as Garden State go untouched is beyond me. It just proves how close-minded America really is, and I refuse to take part in it.
Zach Braff
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The Old School Tie can still be seen on the Government benches.
Clement Attlee
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Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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You're trying to pin me down. I'm not a verbal person. Look at my work and decide for yourself. It's hard to put it into words.
Brett Weston
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What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
Jonathan Swift
