Jonathan Swift Quotes
"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.
Jonathan Swift
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I never accepted the premise that meetings themselves were bad.
Patrick Lencioni
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I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the US press. By people who were pressuring you, saying that you gotta beat the Russian's, if you don't win anything else, win the Russian meet and so forth.
Ralph Boston
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
Langston Hughes
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Some children are tackling tough times without the support that can help them because the adults in their life are scared to ask.
Kate Middleton
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You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.
Barack Obama
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He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
Edgar Fiedler
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Once a Supermodel, always a Supermodel.
Beverly Johnson
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I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.
Alan Rickman
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Real faith rejoices in the promise of God as if it saw the deliverance and was enjoying it.
F. F. Bosworth
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The just man is not the product of a day, but of a long brooding and a painful birth. To become a power for peace, a man must first pass through experiences which lead him to see things in their different aspects: it is necessary that he have a wide horizon, and breathe various atmospheres--in a word, from crossing, one after another, paths and points of view the most diverse, and sometimes the most contradictory, he must acquire the faculty of putting himself in the place of others and appreciating them.
Charles Wagner
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Listening is more than being quiet. Listening is much more than silence. Listening requires undivided attention. The time to listen is when someone needs to be heard. The time to deal with a person with a problem is when he has the problem. The time to listen is the time when our interest and love are vital to the one who seeks our ear, our heart, our help, and our empathy.
Marvin J. Ashton
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But what will happen -- and I have seen this in previous catastrophes and hurricanes -- there is a bright spot in that new jobs do get created.
Elaine Chao
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The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.
Carol Grace
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When I was a kid, I used to try and hit every ball out of the ground. After playing one-day cricket and Test cricket, I never thought I'd get a chance to play like that again, ever. Twenty20 has given me the opportunity of playing like a kid again. I can just feel free and go out there and hit.
Yuvraj Singh
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In social life, in the family government, in the Church, and in the State this is an acknowledged and invariable law. The debtor would be incapable of appreciating the clemency which cancelled the debt, so long as he denied either the existence or the justice of the claim. Unconscious of the obligation, he would be insensible to the grace that remitted it.
Octavius Winslow
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We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We’re difficult to ourselves, we’re difficult to each other.
Geoffrey Hill
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"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.
Jonathan Swift
