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Jonathan Dimbleby

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DEYTH BANGER What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a...
DEYTH BANGER The things of substance are the things that we need to focus on, but they are the things that seem t...
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE Speed Reader: Nothing more than… "Getting knowledge in a fast way".

(Note: What's that?...
DEYTH BANGER Now is the time when you see people which you know... but they start ignoring you... and how do you ...
DEYTH BANGER Why try to have pigs fly
When ducks already can
_ Why try to have pigs fly
When ducks already can
ELLA C. Jesus asks me to loosen my grip on the things that matter to me. It’s only then He can fill my han...
ANUSHA ATUKORALA Mani nogurdina lielās lietas un norises. Es meklēju lielās norises mazajās.
IMANTS ZIEDONIS Gypsy aren't only poor, but they are brutal and not so nice people. World has smashed them, that the...
DEYTH BANGER Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is ...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Be a good guide, tell me what you see, are sure is that?
Please try to describe the picture as ...
DEYTH BANGER My voice is never much louder than a ripple, but even small voices sound loud when you talk about th...
NATALIE LLOYD Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things t...
G.K. CHESTERTON He who knows that he doesn't know, knows what he needs to know.
VIKRANT PARSAI I had forgotten that God, or the world, or whatever carves the rules in stone, doesn't give you time...
TANA FRENCH I believe that public space should be intentional: it should be obvious that you belong.
JANET ECHELMAN What I'm nervous about is, I don't want to set a precedent where a boss or any third party -- milita...
ART CAPLAN The problem with a lot of Indian boys and girls is that they do not approach their partner, they are...
APURVA GAGLANI The road to salvation is filled with many false dark turn-offs, if you take those roads they will le...
GARY F EVANS... Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never rea...
JODI PICOULT Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS It comes down to what your priorities are, and if public education is about kids, then every decisio...
CAMPBELL BROWN You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of t...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH We've built crude supplies far in excess of what the market is expecting and that should weigh on pr...
ADDISON ARMSTRONG Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea...
DEYTH BANGER Here's what's not beautiful about it: from here, you can't see the rust or the cracked paint or what...
JOHN GREEN Between the natural way and the path of grace there is a deep abyss. It is in that gap that we live ...
HAIM SHAPIRA I hope when people ask what you're going to do with your English degree and/or creative writing degr...
CHERYL STRAYED Nothing less than 7 inches.
CASSANDRA CLARE Perhaps Mr Blair should know that when he talks about the rules of the game he should know this is n...
LORD HAILSHAM I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live.
JASPER FFORDE It's only awkward if it matters.
JOYCE RACHELLE Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
ALBERT EINSTEIN In 18 days, Jonathan U should have walked out of that hospital.
CARL CORNWELL We are not to judge thrift solely by the test of saving or spending. If one spends what he should pr...
OWEN D. YOUNG The BBC should not have a cheerleader. It should have somebody who runs the organisation in the inte...
GAVYN DAVIES That probably should have stayed in there. I should have probably said (to staff), 'Don't take that ...
ERICH MISCHE Leadership is not about the power and status of one
but the empowerment and service of all. Th...
RASHEED OGUNLARU It is misunderstanding... It is not a matter that should be resolved before the talks with Presiden...
JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI That should be open, public record.
CHARLES MORRISON I don't think there should be a litmus test on judges, no matter who the president is.
MITCH MCCONNELL I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as strippe...
CAMILLE PAGLIA That is a matter for other people. I actually believe that there should be more truth perhaps told i...
LORD STEVENS The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.
HENRY WARD BEECHER The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world
HENRY WARD BEECHER We should not hoard knowledge; we should be free from our knowledge.
SHUNRYU SUZUKI The strength of one's opinion should not exceed their knowledge on the matter.
ERIC HIRZEL This is my fundamental teaching: that there is no division between this and that. That is contained ...
OSHO If we do not understand something we pretend it does not exist .Pretending that something does not e...
GARY F EVANS... People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
GARY F EVANS... That's SHIT!

How do you remove it?
You just put it inside the trash, easy as that.
DEYTH BANGER You can't be that or that or that... but you can try to behave as that...

So, what next!?...
DEYTH BANGER All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD That should be our test regarding immigrants. Those who come to America to tear it down or live off ...
MARVIN OLASKY When you are true to yourself, you will find yourself more easily able to pursue the things that mat...
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE In the end, what matters is this: I survived.
GAIL HONEYMAN Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat...
DADA BHAGWAN I believe that people should take pride in what they do, even if it is scorned or misunderstood by t...
TONY HAWK It doesn't matter your age, your denomination, your Judaic education or knowledge. It's something th...
DEBRA RUBIN One’s opinion should only be as strong as one’s knowledge on the matter.
ERIC HIRZEL Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that...
ALBERT J. NOCK Constructive complaint requires only two things: that what you are complaining about should be diffe...
JULIAN BAGGINI We do not agree that this matter should be sent to the Security Council,
SERGEY LAVROV Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowled...
GEORGE WASHINGTON I always feel that one should be loved passionately, not as a matter of course.
ANURADHA BHATTACHARYYA The ultimate test of the laughing instinct is that a man should always be ready to laugh at himself
GAMALIEL BRADFORD I have heard nothing whatsoever about this alleged media speculation. This is a matter for the judic...
ABDEL ALANI I have heard nothing whatsoever about this alleged media speculation. This is a matter for the judic...
ABDEL HAQ ALANI We feel that it should be a public park and that people should be able to eat and sit and talk and c...
GAIL SACCO That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge sh...
CHANAKYA That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge sh...
CHANAKYA But you should know that about Dauntless- girl, guy, whatever, it doesn't matter here. What matters ...
VERONICA ROTH It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obe...
BLAISE PASCAL The public should not be afraid of searching for any information, no matter how personal and private...
ADEN FINE With the parks, I don't think we should be the test case for that.
BILL TOMPKINS Man is nothing that he should boast about,but if at all he should boast,it should be about the fact ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A cardinal principle that we must not stray from - no exceptions - is that your genetic information ...
FRANCIS COLLINS Jamming equipment should only be used by the government, such as the police and the bomb squads, not...
HOWARD MELAMED Parents should be really confident, and I am confident, that this is a scientifically valid and reli...
LORI MEI The only deadly disease I have seen that is causing great harm and massacre latently yet the world h...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH While getting lost in all those little things that seem so important, don't forget the little things...
VIRGINIA ALISON Anyone should be able to say on stage what they want. But those who have knowledge, do understand th...
BILL COSBY We are 70 controllers short of what we're authorized, and they continue to say that staffing is not ...
PHIL BARBARELLO There was never a suggestion on my part that hunting should be off the table. It was a matter of dem...
BRADLEY CAMPBELL Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
BRAM STOKER I believe that reality TV should be called 'not reality' TV; it's fiction.
HILL HARPER I believe that everyone should participate in democracy and enjoy doing it.
DAVID STERN There is a real focus on how to break through a lot of this frustration that people talk about. This...
MARSHALL FOSTER I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, ...
RON WYDEN Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say i...
RICHARD DAWKINS Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowled...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT The construction of a courthouse is a long-term investment in a building where important public busi...
CHARLES T. CANADY We walked beside each other, talking about things we should have been least concerned about. But at ...
MELITA TESSY You Change , the things WHEN YOU let your thoughts be like the mind of Christ.
DARIUSH YOUKHANEH Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was ...
ELLIOTT CARTER All schools that receive public funding should be accountable, yes.
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Which ever side you think i...
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A bear will not attempt to fly,
A foundered horse w...
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JONATHAN SWIFT She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.
JONATHAN SWIFT Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same positi...
JONATHAN SWIFT And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, ...
JONATHAN SWIFT I warrant you lay abed till the cows came home.
JONATHAN SWIFT Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
JONATHAN SWIFT Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
JONATHAN LARSON Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
JONATHAN SWIFT There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never ...
JONATHAN RABAN What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of it. I ...
JONATHAN KATZ Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a ...
JONATHAN SWIFT I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
JONATHAN SWIFT As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a...
JONATHAN SWIFT How we apples swim.
JONATHAN SWIFT Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnis...
JONATHAN SWIFT Convey a libel in a frown. And wink a reputation down!
JONATHAN SWIFT For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
JONATHAN SWIFT The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been...
JONATHAN SWIFT Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
JONATHAN SWIFT