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Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich. C. Northcote Parkinson

Government People Will Rich Machinery Make Sovereign Poor Use

When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space, and they become very religious, because they have seen the Signs of Allah. Cat Stevens

Allah Space Signs Seen Become Earth Astronauts Religious See Insignificant Vastness Because Go Very Size Many

Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony. Cat Stevens

Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for making the Anglo Saxon race but one Empire? What a dream, but yet it is probable; it is possible. Cecil Rhodes

World Society Secret Rule Saxon States Possible Dream Object Anglo-Saxon Recovery Empire Making Probable Form Race Should Whole United Why United States Bringing British British Empire

The most special relationships, in my experience, are based on a combination of trust and mutual respect. Charles Kennedy

Respect Trust Experience Relationships Mutual Mutual Respect Combination Most Special Based

I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secured on the back of massive parliamentary majorities, which don't reflect the balance of political opinion in the country - can corrupt absolutely. Charles Kennedy

Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God. Charles Spurgeon

God Nature Obedience Passion Power Every Our Spirit Faculty Thy Come Lord Subdue Oh Sanctify Might Us Use Saturate

There is a power in God's gospel beyond all description. Charles Spurgeon

God Power Beyond Gospel Description

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell. Charles Spurgeon

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary. Charles Spurgeon

Good Me Speak Weary Word Hundred Hundred Times Would Spirit Know Cheer How Go Been Times Afflicted Might Season

We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it. Charles Spurgeon

Christ Church We Cannot Vital Him Till Cannot Communion Union

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights. Charles Spurgeon

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin! Charles Spurgeon

Time Daily Corruption Free Drop Shall Sin Oh Body Flesh

Being nice is awesome. You have more fun; you meet more people. Charli XCX

You People Nice Awesome Meet More More People Being Being Nice Fun

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves. Charlotte Bronte

Success God Judge Men Our Looks Efforts Themselves Us

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world. Charlotte Bronte

You World Value Nothing Like Know Well Affections Sisters Full

I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful. Damien Hirst

Life Beautiful Death You Looking Stupid Energy Live Society Back Those More Fact Throws Look Because Makes Trying Taught Where Confront Them Us Avoid Vigour Ever Things Last Flowers

The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants. David Attenborough

Plants Animals Other Way Mutual Only Both Environment Between Because Dependency Rhinoceros Which Species Lives Millions Save

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