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I think beauty is not just about what we put on our heads or on our faces or what we wear: it's deeper than that, and if we can celebrate that, celebrate the women, not just the superficiality... I think it would be really gorgeous. Alek Wek

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Sometimes in life, when bad things happen to us, or things aren't going our way, or we're faced with a challenge or a problem, it's how you look at the problem; it's how you do it to change your mindset, to dilute the negativity. Alesha Dixon

I may get married later or may never get married. But I want babies, so I'll have to get married. I want fat, cute babies. Every girl has to think about it at some point. For me, marriage is about family, and that's why I find it necessary. Till then, it's normal to have a partner and do your own thing. Alia Bhatt

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It's a relief to hear the rain. It's the sound of billions of drops, all equal, all equally committed to falling, like a sudden outbreak of democracy. Water, when it hits the ground, instantly becomes a puddle or rivulet or flood. Alice Oswald

Every mother and daughter should make time for a trip together. It's good for the soul. Anne Robinson

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My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe. Anton du Beke

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The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions. Antony Jay

Creative Mind Takes Wrong Spot Answers Questions Very Creative Mind

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. Arthur Conan Doyle

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The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy. Benjamin Disraeli

Happy Cottage Safe Palace

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven. Benjamin Disraeli

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. Benjamin Disraeli

Truth Time Truth Is More Than Precious

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. Bertrand Russell

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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. Bertrand Russell

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves. Bertrand Russell

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Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance. Bertrand Russell

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So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. Bertrand Russell

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Drunkenness is temporary suicide. Bertrand Russell

Suicide Temporary Drunkenness

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. Bertrand Russell

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When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn't about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind. Brian Eno

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Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That's what surfers do - take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we've become incredibly adept technically. We've treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part. Brian Eno

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