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We are a plague on the Earth. David Attenborough

Earth Plague

It's a magical thing, the guitar. It allows you to be the whole band in one, to play rhythm and melody, sing over the top. And as an instrument for solos, you can bend notes, draw emotional content out of tiny movements, vibratos and tonal things which even a piano can't do. David Gilmour

You Guitar Band Bend Top Draw Melody Out Solos Magical Emotional Piano Over Over-The-Top Sing Instrument Content Tiny Movements Which Rhythm Notes Whole Even Play Thing Things Tonal

My best friend is the most important girl, outside of family, to me. I met her when I went to college and we bonded immediately. I'd do anything for her at any time. We phone each other every day. Dawn French

Time Best Day Family Me Every Day Phone College Girl Important Met Every Other Immediately Best Friend Outside Most Friend Any The Most Important Anything Each Her Bonded

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking. Dorothy L. Sayers

Thinking Saves Everything Always Quotation Original

The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore - on the contrary, they thought him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround him with an atmosphere of tedium. Dorothy L. Sayers

Justice People Personality Christ Thought Too On The Contrary Later Has-Been Bore Atmosphere Never Generations Safe Shattering Him Been Left Surround Up Contrary Accused Hanged Being Dynamic Them Who Tedium

I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive. Eddie Izzard

Positive People Power Believe Something Goodwill Just

We can all tend to get caught up in the complications of life that we create; we live life for other people. It's a harrowing moment when you're confronted with an end, and you have to make the choice to live your life for you. Elliot Knight

Life You People Live Life Live Other Harrowing Complications Tend Make Caught End Up Get Confronted Create Choice Your Moment

I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about. Emma Watson

Me Failure Fear Care About Doing Stop Want Really

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy. Felicia Hemans

Strength Silence Joy Born Hearts Deep

I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time. Freddie Mercury

Time Think Several Mad Emotional Go Years Very May

The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course. Freddie Mercury

Charisma Darling Overall Course Successful Reason

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world. George Eliot

Positive Life Spiritual World Wealth About Excellence Generally Encourages Shows

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. George Eliot

Death Great Our Severity Tenderness Never Come Repent

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. George Gissing

Most people think when the world gets itself together, we'll all be okay. I don't see that situation arriving. I think one by one, we all free ourselves from the chains we have chained ourselves to. But I don't think that suddenly some magic happens and the whole lot of us will all be liberated in one throw. George Harrison

Together People World Will Free Situation Think Liberated Okay Ourselves See Some Magic Throw Most Arriving Lot Itself Gets Happens Us Whole Chained Chains Suddenly

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie. George Herbert

Lie Spring Sweet Days Box Where Full Roses Sweets

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. George Orwell

Progress Illusion Slow Invariably Disappointing Happens

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded. George Orwell

Human Being Joke Aim Degrade Degraded He Remind Him Human Being

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent. George Orwell

Assuming Alike Both Catholic Opponent Intelligent Cannot Communist Honest

Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living. Gilbert Parker

When something really matters, you should never give up or give in. Gordon Brown

Never Give Up You Matters Give Something Never Up Really Should

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