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Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.
Jimmy Page
Me
Isolation
Sense
Security
Gives
Bother
I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.
John Bright
Me
You
Every
Member
Tory
Folly
Fact
House
House Of Commons
Partisan
Reply
Stoop
Cannot
Commons
Poor
Should
Noticed
Who
Slander
The issue of the environment as seen by Pope Francis is not a matter of purely scientific or, indeed, theological debate: it involves economic and political views on how the world's poor can be brought out of poverty while protecting the environment.
John Cornwell
World
Political
Debate
Matter
Seen
Poverty
Francis
Indeed
Out
Purely
Brought
Economic
Environment
Involves
Protecting
Scientific
How
Issue
Political Views
While
Poor
Theological
Views
Pope
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
John Donne
Mingle
Kisses
More
Souls
Than
Letters
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
John Donne
Death
Art
Me
Those
Thou
Thou Art
Though
Dreadful
Some
Proud
Nor
Overthrow
Die
Canst
Thee
Dost
Poor
Mighty
Whom
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
John Donne
Love
Time
Months
Alike
Days
Hours
Knows
Nor
Which
Rags
Season
Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
John Henry Newman
Fault
Nothing
Would
Would-Be
Find
Could
No-One
Until
Well
Waited
Done
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
John Henry Newman
Love
Men
Our
Only
Exercise
Private
Friends
Preparatory
A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.
John Henry Newman
Great
Memory
Mind
More
Piece
Make
Does
Than
Dictionary
Any
Literature
We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.
John Lubbock
Suffering
People
Anxiety
Down
Nine
Worry
Out
Ten
Hear
Overwork
Often
Breaking
Really
It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics, to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family - and not shuffling it off on other people and the state.
John Major
Time
Family
Respect
Yourself
People
Law
Values
Responsibility
Other
Others
State
Back
Consideration
Self-Discipline
Return
Accepting
Off
Get
Your
Shuffling
Basics
Core
Core Values
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
John Morley
Politics
You
Man
Silenced
Him
Because
Converted
I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.
John Polkinghorne
Important
Creation
Christian
Think
Distinction
Classical
Maintain
Between
Very
Creator
Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness.
Jonathan Sacks
Best
Good
Religion
Community
Relationships
Citizenship
Religious
About
Something
Self
Tenor
Towards
Within
Altruism
Makes
Common
Common Good
Us
Creates
Turns
Away
I'd rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a cave.
Karl Pilkington
Live
Rather
Cave
Than
View
Palace
Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.
Karl Pilkington
Gone
Bit
Since
Quiet
Pirates
I live my life exactly the way I want to. Nothing stops me from going out or being anywhere that I want to be. I am doing whatever I want to do. I do not live my life according to any restrictions whatsoever!
Katrina Kaif
Life
Me
My Life
Whatever
Nothing
Live
Way
Out
Exactly
Exactly The Way
Restrictions
Am
Doing
According
Whatsoever
Any
Going
Stops
Being
Want
Anywhere
Every person I have met who has gone vegan says it is the best decision they have ever made.
Lewis Hamilton
Best
Decision
Made
Vegan
Met
Gone
Every
Says
Person
Who
Ever
Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.
Lillie Langtry
Life
Work
Happy
Sunshine
Air
Consists
Plenty
Spirit
Contented
Exercise
Fresh
Fresh Air
Truly
Anyone
Soap
Lived
But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
Lord Byron
Truth
Hope
Face
Nothing
Rubs
See
Touch
Got
Least
Existence
Off
Hold
Then
Paint
Harlot
Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?
Lord Byron
Truth
Change
Made
Changed
Got
Opinions
How
Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.
Maajid Nawaz
Satire
Think
Our
Definition
Uncomfortable
Feel
Heads
Make
Offensive
Scratch
Again
Then
Us
Meant
The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.
Marcus Buckingham
People
World
Corporate
Corporate World
Bad
Strengths
Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
Martin Amis
Lion
Art
Lie
Will
Rose
Down
Thorn
Only
Without
Lamb
Grow
The World Cup is not just a great global sporting event, it is also inscribed with much deeper cultural and political importance.
Martin Jacques
Great
World
Political
Global
Importance
Also
Sporting Event
Cultural
Cup
Just
Much
Event
World Cup
Deeper
Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just 'virtual reality.'
Martin Rees
Education
Science
Reality
Field
Virtual
Virtual Reality
Telling
Trips
Crucial
Involvement
Real
Hands-On
Just
Experiments
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