Samuel Johnson Quotes
A lady once asked him how he came to define 'pastern', the knee of a horse: instead of making an elaborate defence, as might be expected, he at once answered, 'Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance.'
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
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It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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None of our series are ever static in terms of the dates. We always have a range of flexibility to respond to whatever may or may not happen.
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Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.
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Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It's an active process.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household.
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I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.
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I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
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I view my own body as a petting zoo. I am the main attraction... And the only customer.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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So easy are men to be drawn to believe any thing, from such men as have gotten credit with them; and can with gentleness and dexterity take hold of their fear and ignorance.
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A lady once asked him how he came to define 'pastern', the knee of a horse: instead of making an elaborate defence, as might be expected, he at once answered, 'Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance.'
