Samuel Johnson Quotes
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Samuel Johnson
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Republicans traditionally say, 'oh, we'll cut domestic spending, but we won't touch the military.' The liberals - the ones who are good - will say, 'oh, we'll cut the military, but we won't cut domestic spending.'
Rand Paul
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
Harold Pinter
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
Owen Arthur
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
Karl Pilkington
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What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
Malcolm Gladwell
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And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
Ian McDiarmid
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
Randeep Hooda
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
J. C. Watts
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
Dana Perino
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My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
Lance Armstrong
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I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
Farnaz Fassihi
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A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
William R. Alger
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Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.
Saint Ignatius
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It's a nonsense because, as we all know, there are brilliant 15-year-old readers and hopeless 50-year-old readers. All that categorisation is a matter of bookshop shelves rather than literary categories, I think.
Mal Peet
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It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.
Yahoo Serious
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Journey’s end In western lands beneath the Sun The flowers may rise in Spring, The trees may bud, the waters run, The merry finches sing. Or there maybe 'tis cloudless night, And swaying branches bear The Elven-stars as jewels white Amid their branching hair. Though here at journey's end I lie In darkness buried deep, Beyond all towers strong and high, Beyond all mountains steep, Above all shadows rides the Sun And Stars for ever dwell: I will not say the Day is done, Nor bid the Stars farewell.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Samuel Johnson
