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The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire. Pamela Hansford Johnson
Sunset Water Sky Fire Broke Like Caught Egg Full
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. Rudyard Kipling
You Women Soldier Out Wounded Remains Come Like Go Brains Left Up Roll Blow Afghanistan Plains Cut Your Rifle Jest
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye. Thomas Fuller
Wife Eye Rather Than Your Choose Ear
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. Thomas Paine
Strength Fear Power Despotism Consists Wholly Resistance
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. Thomas Paine
Me Power National Christian Profit Monopolize Other Churches Enslave Inventions Institutions Terrify Up National Institutions Than Human Whether Turkish Mankind Appear Set Jewish
Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end. Tom Hiddleston
Life Win Negative Haters Energy Think Negative Energy About Costs Never True Because Always End Just In The End
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. Alan Watts
Future Past Real Exist Past And Future Which Realized Illusions Present
The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention. Alan Watts
Ego Focus Nothing Other Attention Than Conscious
Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not. Anna Neagle
Loneliness Solitude Pleasant
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Life You Made Long Perfectly Idea Anniversary Surely Were Loved Whole
The poetry of the earth is never dead. John Keats
Earth Poetry Never Dead
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality. John Locke
Love Truth Alone Society Our Neighbor Ourselves Morality Cases Determine Human Social To Love Might Human Society
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. John Locke
Education Knowledge World Thorough Only Fence Against
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Future Fear Past Weep
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. Robert Southey
Friendship Time Worth Other Distance Thoroughly Those Place Persuaded Lapse Who Lessen Each
Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating. Simon Sinek
Leadership Thinking Way Most Importantly Communicating Acting
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. Thomas Fuller
Forgiveness Man Every Others Must He Over Himself Pass Forgive Forgiven Cannot Which Breaks Bridge Every Man Need
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change. Thomas Hardy
Time Change Changes Everything Something Except Within Always Surprised Time Changes Which Us
Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow. William Pollard
Success You Learning Innovation Arrogance Tomorrow Will Yesterday Think Go Hand Hand-In-Hand Did Success Is Sufficient
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. Aldous Huxley
Technology Progress Backwards More Merely Provided Efficient Going Us Means Technological Technological Progress
Who is wise in love, love most, say least. Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love Wisdom Wise Say Most Least Who
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. Douglas Adams
Experience Others Ability Having Remarkable Almost Also Learn Human Human Beings Apparent Who Unique Beings
I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be. Douglas Adams
Seldom Almost Always Go End Up Where Wanted Need
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. Michael Korda
Motivational Goals Way Constantly One-Way Greater Going Momentum Keep
Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don't go out on the branch, you're never going to get the best fruit. Sarah Parish
Best You Risks Fruit Fear Taking Risks Living Out Never Taking Go Branch Get Going Stops Us
Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out. Stephen Hawking
Time You Travel Science Space Thought Before Relativity Possibility Out General Could Return Science Fiction Go Rocket Off Time Travel Just Fiction Einstein Much Warp Used Theory Set
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