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To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder. Benjamin Disraeli

Class Protection Community Plunder Advantage Tax

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. Benjamin Disraeli

Correct Easier Critical Than Much

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause. Bertrand Russell

Work Demanding Pleasure Some Open Develop He Exercise Without His Provided Get Anyone Skill Who Specialised Satisfaction Applause Universal

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it. Bertrand Russell

Age Live Our Hesitation Philosophy Those Study Perhaps Without How Chief Being Teach Certainty Who Thing

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. Bertrand Russell

Government Freedom Secure Only Opinion Exist Itself Thinks

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return. Bertrand Russell

Love God Mathematics Nothing Universe Spinoza Particular Like Return Because Accidental Human Us Planet Whole

Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart's blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest. Charles Spurgeon

Home Broken Peace Heart Rest Physician Power Own Every Bone Those Thou Wounded Compounded Give Lay Troubled Sacred Divine Feel Thy Come Like Blood Up Oh Cannot Which Sea Bind Whose Conscience Thine

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked. Charles Spurgeon

Prayer Grace Will Before Faults Throne Come Overlooked

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee. Charles Spurgeon

First Ought Our Everything Failures Come How Lord Lord Jesus Still Came Just Thee Transgression Jesus

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results. Charlotte Bronte

Work Silence Would Results Could Obscurity Known Always Efforts If I Could

My dad's my best mate, and he always will be. Cher Lloyd

Best Will Father's Day He Always Mate Dad

I'm an incurable optimist, and I'm a great believer in never looking back. Life is too short, and new challenges are exciting. Cherie Blair

Life Great Challenges Life Is Too Short Looking Looking Back Too Great Believer Back Incurable Never Exciting New New Challenges Optimist Short Believer

The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about. David Attenborough

Elections aren't about records, they're about plans and choices. David Cameron

About Records Choices Elections Plans

I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to. David Walliams

Alone You Happy Creativity World Young Think Imagination Characters Easy Voices Had Developed Liked Because Go Very Child Childhood Being Being Alone Place Happy Childhood Creating Your

Music is the language of the angels. You can hear just one or two chords, one or two notes of a song, and bam - you're right back there, you're right back in that moment, you're back in that day, you're back at that prom, you're back in the car. Delilah

Music Day You Song Language Car Back Prom One Or Two Angels Hear Just Just One Notes Moment Chords Right Right Back Two

I have more of a relationship with the subject than I do with my camera equipment. To me, camera equipment is like a tin of shoe polish and a brush - I use that as a tool, but my basic camera is my emotion and my eyes. It's not anything to do with the wonderful cameras I use. Don McCullin

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring. Enid Bagnold

Marriage Luxury Criticism Manners Other Beneath Wildest Ancient Ourselves Ring Wedding Wedding Ring Real Up Erupt Familiar Child Accusation May Again Ageless Who Each Ridiculous Keep

Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake. Felix Dennis

Money Addiction Shake Making Making Money Cannot Certainly

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