"Some men, under the notion of weeding out……" — Jonathan Swift
"Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion"
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271 Quotes by Jonathan Swift
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A carpenter is known by his chips.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot,…
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot,…
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A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales…
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I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.
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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his…
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I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its…
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It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.
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Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out…
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Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their…
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No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning…
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Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or…
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Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't…
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We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the…
— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. So many look to eradicate fear from…
— Mark Twain
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Parkinson's Law is a purely scientific discovery, inapplicable except in theory to the politics of the day. It is not…
— C. Northcote Parkinson
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Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
— Richard Dawkins
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It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and…
— Richard Dawkins
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The earth has enough knowledge and resources to eradicate this ancient scourge. Hunger has plagued the world for thousands of…
— George McGovern
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Christianity cannot erase man's need for pleasure, nor can it eradicate the various sources of pleasure. What it can do,…
— George H. Smith
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It will take time to eradicate a cancer like Isil. And any time we take military action, there are risks…
— Barack Obama
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Agrofuel is a crime against humanity and I believe there should be a moratorium put in place until there is…
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