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We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.
Jonathan Sacks
Work
Good
Home
Together
Build
Idea
Rediscover
Common
Common Good
Work Together
Need
Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.
Jonathan Sacks
Faith
Day
People
Fear
Free
Live
Jews
Gave
One Day
Would
Would-Be
Never
Because
Without
Were
Up
Itself
Survived
Regarded
Which
Centuries
Holocaust
Even
Defeats
In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.
Jonathan Sacks
World
Our
Must
Threatened
Argued
Feel
Learn
Difference
Interconnected
Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.
Jonathan Sacks
Success
You
Worth
Wealth
Passion
Nothing
Enjoy
Spending
Follow
Lifetime
Accolades
Doing
Fame
Your
Things
The meaning of the universe lies outside the universe.
Jonathan Sacks
Universe
Lies
Outside
Meaning
Meaning Of
Jews have deep respect for the Queen and the royal family. We say a prayer for them every Sabbath in synagogue. We recite a special blessing on seeing the Queen.
Jonathan Sacks
Family
Prayer
Respect
Blessing
Queen
Every
Jews
Synagogue
Recite
Say
Seeing
Sabbath
Them
Special
Deep
Royal
Royal Family
You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.
Joseph Chamberlain
You
Old
Tricks
New
Dogs
Cannot
Teach
The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.
Joseph Needham
Future
Will
Relations
Hierarchy
Structure
Ecological
Idea
Leading
Perhaps
Equilibrium
Molecular
Whole
Species
Carbon
Success, and even life itself, wouldn't be worth anything if I didn't have my wife and children by my side. They mean everything to me.
Jude Law
Life
Success
Me
Worth
Wife
Side
Everything
Itself
Children
Anything
Mean
Even
When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's ultimate expression, really.
Jude Law
You
People
Genius
Dance
Single
Every
Back
Find
Part
Step
Because
Ultimate
Movement
Realize
Really
Body
Use
Expression
Watch
Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.
Julia Margaret Cameron
Back
Spiral
Itself
Process
Doubling
Growth
Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something.
Julian Baggini
Waiting
Phones
Google
Seconds
Our
Out
Something
Check
Messages
Unusual
Without
Queue
Getting
Us
Stand
Many
Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality.
Julian Baggini
Family
Meal
Guests
Hospitality
Generous
Invited
Occasion
Friends
Celebration
Any
Which
Should
Whatever your religious persuasion, if you believe that that the universe is governed by benign forces, at some point you have to explain why there is so much suffering, misfortune and misery in the world.
Julian Baggini
You
Suffering
World
Whatever
Believe
Universe
Benign
Religious
Some
Point
Misery
Misfortune
Forces
Governed
Explain
Much
Persuasion
Your
Why
Life is full of what-ifs, many of which could easily have been realities, had just a few things been different.
Julian Baggini
Life
Few
Easily
Could
Had
Been
Few Things
Just
Different
Which
Realities
Full
Many
Things
The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable.
Julian Baggini
Mind
Healthy
Live
Mark
Virtue
Indeed
Ability
More
Only
Uncertainty
Facts
Clear
Mere
Terms
Ambiguity
Mature
Precise
Psychologically
Much
Really
Applicable
It is first and foremost very hard work! But I have a wonderful part and I do have fun. The company, cast and crew of 'Passions' are wonderful to work with.
Juliet Mills
Work
Hard Work
Have Fun
Wonderful
First
Crew
Cast
Part
Passions
Foremost
Very
Hard
Fun
Company
My songs form a kind of biography or diary of my life as they are about people I have loved and people I only knew in my heart, places I have seen only for a moment and places I have lived all my life.
Justin Hayward
Life
Heart
People
My Life
Seen
All My Life
Kind
About
Only
Songs
Knew
Diary
Form
Loved
Places
Moment
Lived
Biography
I would say trust your own judgment and develop your own style that is true in your heart and don't be deterred from that. Just develop that something that's unique to you that you feel you can give. Be true to yourself, trust your own judgment; that's all.
Justin Hayward
You
Heart
Trust
Yourself
Be True
Judgment
Style
Own
Say
Would
Give
Something
Deterred
Develop
True
Feel
Just
Your
Unique
I really can't believe what a state the Pyramids are in. I thought they had flat rendered sides, but when you get up close, you see how they are just giant boulders balanced on top of each other, like a massive game of Jenga that has got out of hand.
Karl Pilkington
You
Game
Thought
Believe
Other
State
Sides
Top
Giant
Out
See
Had
Pyramids
Like
Massive
Rendered
Balanced
Got
How
Hand
Up
Close
Get
Just
Flat
Really
Each
That's the problem with having a bald head. It exaggerates the shape.
Karl Pilkington
Problem
Exaggerate
Having
Shape
Head
Bald
The Problem With
People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.
Karl Pilkington
People
Live
Glass
Houses
Answer
Door
Who
At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is.
Karl Pilkington
Day
Me
World
Cause
Brainy
End Of The Day
Way
About
Never
Mess
Make
End
Trying
Going
Just
Happen
Einstein
Gonna
Teachers
I found that being with happy positive people annoys me.
Karl Pilkington
Positive
Me
Happy
People
Annoys
Being
Found
I've never worried about life's big questions.
Karl Pilkington
Life
Big
Worried
About
Never
Questions
Big Questions
I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else.
Kate Adie
Life
Saying
Time
Life Is Too Short
Too
Else
Something
Something Else
Point
No Time
Miss
Gosh
Go
Sitting
Endless
Any
Oh
Short
Nostalgia
Used
Things
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