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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth. Virginia Woolf

Truth Business Fight Thinking Our Puncture Seeds Mental Bags Discover Current Against Means Gas

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. Virginia Woolf

Thoughts Eyes Others Our Prisons

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. W. Somerset Maugham

Friendship Character You Personality Over Friends Your Choose Choosing

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. Winston Churchill

You Only Sure Am Endure Conquer

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget? Winston Churchill

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Winston Churchill

Good Man Books A Good Thing Good Thing Read Uneducated Quotations Thing

Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do. Alan Moore

Life Music Art You People Writing Light Life Is A Whatever More Know Around Commemorate Lot Up Patch Want Interested Places Interesting Little Them Your Ground Illuminate Things

And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. Alan Rickman

It's always inspiring when people all come together and be strong as a group. This is why I feel so strongly to put the message to people that we need to stand together in tough times. Anne-Marie

Tough Times Together People Strong Be Strong Tough Group Strongly Inspiring Put Feel Come Message Always Times Stand Why Need

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt. Arthur Conan Doyle

Truth Truth Is Better Doubt Indefinite Than Any

Something unknown is doing we don't know what. Arthur Eddington

Unknown Something Know Doing

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it. Bear Grylls

Fear Way Finding Having Absence Through Brave Being

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans. Benjamin Disraeli

Day Other Secret Everywhere Ministers Kings Merely Also Deal Governments Upset Which Agents Plans Moment Present Societies Last

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes. Benjamin Disraeli

World Imagination Those Scenes Governed Very Behind Different Who Imagined

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex. Bertrand Russell

Time Good Food Honesty People Words Sex Good Time Believe Living Outrage Knowing Boxes Fists Using Good Food Street

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires. Bertrand Russell

I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis. Boris Johnson

Elvis Minister Finding Prime Prime Minister Becoming Frisbee Being Much Chance

My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters. Boris Johnson

Myself Opportunities Indeed Only Disasters Fresh Discovered Friends

Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain's summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever. Charles Spurgeon

God Men Cloud Summit Shall Purposes Disappear Like Itself Mountain May Achievements Which Stand Plans Ever Fast Things

There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He casts a sinner into hell. Charles Spurgeon

God Injustice Grace Hell Casts He Sinner Forgives Just Believer

Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself. Delia Smith

Beautiful Good Food Think Eating Itself Very Good Food Actually Enjoyed

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance. Freddie Mercury

Worth Musician Some Remembered Dead Substance Want

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