Jonathan Swift Quotes
The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.
Jonathan Swift
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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.
Edgar Ramirez
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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.
Ram Shriram
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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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country?
Ted Cruz
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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.
Edmund Phelps
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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.
Garth Brooks
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Allen was like a prophet of the 1960s.
B. R. Hayden
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No matter where life takes me. Find me with a smile.
Mac Miller
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I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology
Zbigniew Herbert
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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.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.
Aaron Eckhart
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I know you have a hundred complex cases against God in court, but never mind, let's just get out of this mess.
Hafez
