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• There is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.
  Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) "Gulliver's Travel...
• There are very few original thinkers in the world; the greatest part of those who are called philosophers have adopted the opinions of some who went before them.
  -- Dugald Stewe...
• The philosophers have only interpreted the world; the thing, however, is to change it.
  -- Karl Marx...
• It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the first.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Tale of a Tub, Dedicatio...
• Every dog must have its day. -- Jonathan Swif
• On or about October 19, 1745 a man named Johnathan Swif
  or a spelling near unto this, died, or is said to have died, since the vital signs, the majority of them at least, are alleged not to have been present....
• When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
  -- Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjec...
• There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy. -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
• America has an exaggerated reputation for freedom and opportunity.
  A lady I work with from Peru still believes that any child who wants to go to college can go, and graduate, and find work as a white-collar paper pusher, and save money, and become rich, and get any medical care they need, and have happy, safe children....