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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again? A. A. Milne

You Think Forget Did Stop Again Ever Start

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise. Jerome K. Jerome

Funny Blessing I Am Disguise Looking Am

It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase 'quality time' means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as you rush out. Joanna Lumley

Time You Marriage Quality Little Things Listening Three Important Sit Down Nice Other Ghastly Say Alive Out Phrase Vital Rush Minutes Someone Rather Small Remembering Taking Over Quality Time Still Doing Yelling Than Just Little Means Shoulder Your Each Nice Things Keep Things Treats

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. John Maynard Keynes

Good Capitalism Will Men Everyone Astounding Most Greatest Belief Things

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence. Robert Peel

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son. Rudyard Kipling

You Man Son World Losing Will Others Everything Be A Man About More Blaming Wits While Your Yours Keep

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. Thomas Paine

Liberty Men Thinking Horizon Shadow Up Yield Privilege Quits Last

My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure. Brian Blessed

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. A. A. Milne

Happy Mind Minority Thinking Second-Rate Only Majority First-Rate

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. Arthur C. Clarke

Funny Survival Intelligence Value Proven Any

I'm not a sad person, upset the whole time, but I seem to be quite emotional. Freddie Highmore

Sad Time Seem Emotional Person Quite Upset Whole

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Gilbert K. Chesterton

New Year's Man Soul Eyes Will Made Year Nothing Starts Unless Backbone Ears Would Object About He New Feet Particular Make New Eyes Effective Man-Made New Year Nose Should Certainly Things Resolutions

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best. Robert Baden-Powell

Time Best You Happy World Better Try Feeling Rate Leave Than Die Any Done Little Turn Your Found Wasted

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. Stephen Hawking

Broken People Dark Will Down Components Computer Computers Fail Fairy Brain Heaven Stop Afraid Regard Afterlife Story Which Working

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. Terry Pratchett

Life Day Man Rest Fire Build He His Warm Set

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. Aldous Huxley

People Sets Other Propagandist Purpose Make Forget Human Certain Set

Don't quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can't see it. Listen to your drum and your drum only. It's the one that makes the sweetest sound. Simon Sinek

Never Give Up You World Build Others See Give Only Never Drum Makes Sound Up Trying Quit Listen Your Sweetest Even

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man. Arthur Young

Inspirational God Man Plants Animals Walks Sleeps Minerals Awakens Thinks

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. E. F. Schumacher

Fool Courage Genius Complex Touch Direction More Takes Make Opposite Opposite Direction Lot Intelligent Any Move Bigger Things

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Isaac Newton

Truth Myself Great Me Trust World Ocean Before Finding Prettier Seem Only Diverting Lay Like Know Shell Boy Smoother Been Undiscovered Than May Ordinary Whilst Then Appear Seashore Now Now And Then Playing Pebble

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. John Milton

Life Thankful Gratitude Change Experience World Everyday Those Allowing How Reverence Encounter Forever Transcendent Us Moments Awe

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