Jonathan Swift Quotes
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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Let's make Jeb Bush explain his plan to give millionaires another massive tax cut.
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A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.
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The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
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In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.
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And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few years. She's this amazing capacity of young and vibrant and brilliant, but also a bright, intelligent old soul.
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I don't eat any dairy products at all, usually - it's a self-imposed ban. I've done it for a year now, since I was ill, but it's so hard.
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The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun.
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When you subpoena one pastor, you subpoena every pastor.
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US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
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When you sit down and play your music for someone you respect, you get that feeling in your stomach of like: 'Oh my God...' You know if it's not great because you start to feel sick.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement.
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You can get beat any day.
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I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.
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If you fight angry, you make a lot of mistakes, and when you fight a sharp, witty fighter like me, you can't make mistakes.
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I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.
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I like to do really realistic paintings, which requires so much focus; like, if I have to go to the bathroom or change a song, I can't; I'm so in it.
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Does what you think of you determine your worth?
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Some wise being organized my system, and gave me my capacity, put into my heart and brain something that delights, charms, and fills me with rapture at the sound of sweet music.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever.
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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.
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Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
