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Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun. Hilaire Belloc
Life Death Sympathy Sun Possession Shadow Loss Falls Shines Where
What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does. J. K. Rowling
Will Meet Come Does Coming Just
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out. J. R. R. Tolkien
You World Out About Fence Forever Cannot Wide Wide World
I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now? John Lennon
Dreams Mind Believe Everything Say Myths Until Fairies Real Exists Your Even Now Disproved Here Dragons Nightmares
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. John Locke
Knowledge First Understanding Own Increase Others Secondly Our Deliver Enable Improvement Ends Us Two
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. John Locke
Education Good Reflection Gentleman Reading Must Finish Him Begins Good Company Company
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth. Peter Ustinov
Parenting Parents Teeth Children Which Cut Bones
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. Terry Pratchett
Knowledge Ignorance Dangerous Half Say Dangerous Thing One Half Bad Lot Little They Say Thing
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf. Thomas Fuller
Peace Madness Sheep Wolf Talk
An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot. Thomas Paine
Peace Army Soldiers Penetrate Principles Where Cannot
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep. W. H. Auden
Else Someone Talks Who Professor Sleep
Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees. William Cowper
Satan Trembles Weakest Sees He Knees Saint
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. William Shakespeare
Lost Reputation Merit Most Without Got Idle Imposition False Oft Deserving
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. Aldous Huxley
Politics War Own Monstrous About Fact Individual Individual Human Most Instruments Quarrels Condemned Shocking Human Human Beings Conventions Victims Beings
Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm. Charles Caleb Colton
Great Confusion Darkest Furnace Minds Purest Calamity Hottest Greatest Been Times Storm Ore Produced Productive Brightest
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. Charles Dickens
Good People Bad People Bad Would Would-Be Lawyers Were
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? Douglas Adams
Beautiful Gardening Garden Believe Too Enough See Having Bottom Fairies Without
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. Francis Bacon
Life Dinner Life Is A Miserable Breakfast Lunch Bachelor Fine Flat
And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss. J. K. Rowling
Me Writing Cafe Seeing Takes Idea Bliss Off Just Wandering Where Notebook Awhile
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. J. K. Rowling
Neglect Indifference More Outright Than Often Dislike Much Damage
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome
Truth Best Good You Speak Liar Unless Exceptionally Policy Course Always The Best Policy
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist. Louis Nizer
Man Heart His Brain Laborer Hands Artist Craftsman Who Works
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. Rudyard Kipling
First Country Smell Understanding Foreign Foreign Country Condition
There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak. Simon Sinek
Waiting Speak Listening Between Difference Turn Your
One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process. Simon Sinek
Best Leadership Destination Vision Insist Leader Paradoxes Must Stay Both Stubborn He Open-Minded Course Sticking Process Need
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. Stephen Hawking
Life Nature Own Human Nature Think Our Viruses Says Destructive Purely About Something Only Computer Count Computers Human Form Far Created Should Image
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