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If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. Winston Churchill

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. George Orwell

Intelligence Men First Duty Sunk Obvious Intelligent Which Depth Now

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. Neil Gaiman

You Vision Mind Dance Build Live Else Draw One Thing Only Voice Write Nobody Nobody Else The One Thing Story Your Play Thing

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. Winston Churchill

Politics You Respect Law Destroy Thousand Ten Regulations

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. Bertrand Russell

Love Loneliness Women Love Is Men Men And Women Sexual Something More Throughout Part Most Principal Greater Escape Than Afflicts Intercourse Which Far Means Lives Desire

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. Charles Spurgeon

Wisdom Great Knowledge Wise Fool Great Deal Men Fools Know Knowing Greater Deal How Use Many Right

For when a child is born the mother also is born again. Gilbert Parker

Mother Born Born-Again Also Mother's Day Child Again

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship. Lord Byron

Love Friendship Never Does May Often Grow

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. George Eliot

Death Our Never Until Dead Forgotten Them Us

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation. Bertrand Russell

Will Only Redeem The Only Thing Mankind Cooperation Thing

Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace. Ingrid Newkirk

Love Great Thoughts Respect Peace Animal Joy Fear Doubt Pain Every Consideration Those Shadow Feel Beyond Know His Left Afford Any Human Human Animal Being Story Them Interests Now Deserve Her Cared

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. W. Somerset Maugham

Writing Three Rules No-One Knows Unfortunately Novel

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! Winston Churchill

You Try Will Half Meet Ought Back Danger Run Threatened Promptly Never Without Reduce Anything Turn Double Away

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. George Eliot

Love Soul Blessed True Another Human Influence Loving Human Soul

Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other. Eric Burdon

Good Struggle Good And Evil Win Will Evil Other Constant Inside Seed Both Without Exist Cannot Which Us Each

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. Winston Churchill

Our Shape Buildings Us Thereafter

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have. Winston Churchill

Politics Country Healthy Citizens Greatest Greatest Asset Any Asset

I hate prejudice, discrimination, and snobbishness of any kind - it always reflects on the person judging and not the person being judged. Everyone should be treated equally. Gordon Brown

Hate Everyone Kind Judged Equally Judging Always Discrimination Reflects Person Any Being Being Judged Prejudice Should Treated

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning. J. B. Priestley

Day Morning Waiting Try Somewhere Bit Magic More Delighted Prospect New Perhaps New Day Fresh Always Been Behind Start

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. James Herriot

Love Loyalty Gratitude Soul Better Pet Animals Able Having Better Off Feel Lot Off Than Being Then Means Humans

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