Jonathan Swift Quotes
The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.
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I do freestyle jumping. Been doing since I was eight years old and can't quit. I'm addicted. I've broken many bones, but I ride with confidence. It's my thing - there's no high on earth like it. It's my hobby and I really enjoy it.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
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There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
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We absolutely look at larger trends and reactions on Twitter here at the White House.
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Panama is a country that's been dealing with issues of identity since its very birth. It was born on Wall Street. It was born out of engineering construction. It was the canal. Because of the canal, the country was born, so the country has been divided into pro-canal and against-canal people for so long.
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There are still some pieces that aren't being used, like the white-space bands between TV channels. With digital broadcasting, those buffers aren't needed anymore. The wireless telcos want to lease them, while the TV industry wants to maintain the status quo. Either decision would be a mistake.
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Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.
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Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country?
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I'm not attacking the idea that people live in conglomerations of houses in proximity to one another, sharing the same water mains and the same newspaper delivery boy and so forth. I'm not objecting to that. That could happen with or without homeownership.
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I'd love to play a villain in a movie, the kind of bad guy you would never think of me being able to play. Like most people, I have a darker side I'd like to explore onscreen.
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Allen was like a prophet of the 1960s.
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No matter where life takes me. Find me with a smile.
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I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology
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On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right? There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.
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I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.
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Hillary Clinton respects good ideas wherever they come from. That's something I haven't seen in a lot of powerful people.
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I'm very intolerant and I get fed up with people easily.
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I'm afraid. I know L. I don't want you to get hurt. I won't. What if you do. I'll wait for you. Even if I'm dark? Even if you're very very dark.
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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.
