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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world. Tanith Lee

The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies. Terry Waite

We need to change attitudes. We can only change attitudes by working together. Government will do its bit, but I want you all to do your bit, too. So speak out, stand up against violence against women and girls, and that's the way we can eradicate it. Theresa May

Government You Working Together Change Together Women Speak Will Girl Too Way Bit Out Only Attitudes Eradicate Women And Girls Up Want Against Working Stand Your Stand Up Violence Need

I don't tour the TV studios. I don't gossip over lunch. I don't drink in Parliament's bars. I don't wear my heart on my sleeve. I just get on with the job in front of me. Theresa May

Me Heart Gossip Job Lunch Sleeve TV Wear Drink Parliament Tour Studios Over Get Front Just Bars

It is essential to democracy that the elected representatives of the people make the laws that govern this country - and not the judges. Theresa May

Democracy People Country Laws Make Judges Govern Essential Representatives Elected

I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early. Thom Gunn

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. Thomas Babington Macaulay

Good Knowledge Men Whatever Logic Tendency Make Theory

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely. Thomas Babington Macaulay

Men Settle Rightly Never Freely Likely Question Discuss

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. Thomas Babington Macaulay

Morality Know Fits Public Ridiculous Spectacle British

That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy. Thomas Babington Macaulay

Government Best Happy People Make Knows How Which Them Desires

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim. Thomas Babington Macaulay

Nothing General Maxim Useless

An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders. Thomas Traherne

Soul Book Mind Nothing All Things Written Like Empty Infant May Wonders Anything Which Capable Fill Things Profitable

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness. Thomas Traherne

Happiness Wisdom World Physician Important Think Imagination Way Madmen Oneself General Point Most Place Therefore Present Necessary

Compared with mammals, birds have relatively large eyes. In simple terms, a bigger eye means better vision, and excellent vision is essential for avoiding collisions in flight, or for capturing fast-moving or camouflaged prey. Birds' eyes, however, are deceptive - they are bigger than they look. Tim Birkhead

Eyes Vision Better Simple Birds Relatively Eye Excellent Prey Look Terms However Mammals Than Essential Deceptive Bigger Means Flight Avoiding Large Compared Capturing

I still find it quite easy to find my way into a child's imagination. We're all Peter Pan ourselves in some respects. Everybody should keep some grip on childhood, even as a grownup. Tim Curry

I like risky parts - abrasive characters the audience won't necessarily like. Tim Curry

Characters Risky Like Parts Audience Necessarily

Don't dream it, be it. Tim Curry

Dream Dream It

Mozart was very much an arrested adolescent. Tim Curry

Adolescent Arrested Very Mozart Much

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