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Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control. Zadie Smith

Time Good You Good Time Some Self-Control Fair Fair Amount Know Because Your Amount

When I was 21, I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for 'The Simpsons' who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life. Zadie Smith

Life Me Religious Joined Write Simpsons Like Wrote Editor Cult Discovered Wanted The Simpsons Unfortunately Script Kafka Then

In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves. Zaha Hadid

Time People Able Hospital Themselves Should

I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.' Zaha Hadid

Myself Luxury Will Made Thinking Give Never

Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough. Zaha Hadid

Architecture Tough Difficult Unnecessarily Very

Wildlife film-makers I know tell me that the effort to portray what looks like an untouched ecosystem becomes harder every year. They have to choose their camera angles ever more carefully to exclude the evidence of destruction, travel further to find the Edens they depict. George Monbiot

Me Travel Destruction Year Every Carefully Wildlife Evidence Further Tell Find Angles More Exclude Like Ecosystem Know Untouched Looks Becomes Camera Effort Depict Choose Ever Harder Portray Film-Makers

A well begun is half ended. A. C. Benson

Half Well Begun Ended

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory. A. C. Benson

Life You Age Long Seems More Than Get Little March

Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere. A. E. Waite

The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity. A. E. Waite

Sense Has-Been General General Sense Ideas Been Connected Activity Universal

We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards. A. E. Waite

Seen Evidence Particle Tarot Tarot Cards Egyptian Origin Now Cards

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting. A. J. P. Taylor

Life Peace Nothing More Make Than Establishment Agreeable

Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914. A. J. P. Taylor

War Great Capitalism World First Every State Only He Since Course First World First World War Inevitably Caused Discover Discovered Being Lenin Capitalist Fought Right World War

Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world. Aaron Klug

Best Struggle Natural World Secret Secret Weapon Weapon Unravel Powerful Powerful Force Perhaps Know Force Curiosity Human Urge Natural World Workings

I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes. Aaron Klug

Young Minds Contact Like Toes Teaching Keeps

Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics. Aaron Klug

Physics Someone Colonies Cambridge Go Laboratory Place

My natural hair is jet black. I used to have it down to my bum. And I went through a phase of being obsessed with fake tan. So from the age of 14 to 16, I looked like an Apache Indian! Abbey Clancy

Age Natural Black Hair Down Jet Indian Through Obsessed Like Looked Fake Tan Bum Being Apache Used Phase

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