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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. Thomas Paine
Truth Inquiry Only Error Shrinks
It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance. Thomas Paine
Treat Falsehood Affront
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. William Wordsworth
Feelings Poetry Emotion Takes Powerful Spontaneous Overflow Tranquility Origin
Some people care too much. I think it's called love. A. A. Milne
Love People Care Too Much Some People Think Too Some Much
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. Alan Watts
God Eyes Experience Ears Musical Possible Fabulous Nerves Instruments How Enchanted Brain Itself Than Being Anything Sensitive Less Jewels
Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying. Aldous Huxley
Bullying Good Everyone Always Human Ends Wants Race Who Human Race Universal
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations. Aldous Huxley
Truth Great Silence Eloquent Totalitarian About More Point Could Point Of View Simply Most Practical Greater Opinion Still Subjects Effectively Than Influenced Much Certain View
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.' Aldous Huxley
Life Problem Try Advice Way Bit Embarrassing Kinder Find More Concerned Been End Offer Than Human Little
Those with dementia are still people and they still have stories and they still have character and they're all individuals and they're all unique. And they just need to be interacted with on a human level. Carey Mulligan
Character People Those Individuals Dementia Still Human Just Stories Unique Level Need
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Life Thankful Gratitude You Critical Take Whether Them Granted Thing Things
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Education People Purpose Compulsory Common Common People Commonsense Deprive
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love Virtue Unlovable Which To Love Means
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. H. G. Wells
Jealousy Moral Indignation Halo
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. H. G. Wells
Heart Beauty Beholder
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. James Anthony Froude
Death Man Animals Wild Wild Animals Torture Only Never Fellow Sport Fellow Creatures His Itself Whom Creatures Amusing
May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life. James Joseph Sylvester
Life Music Mathematics Sense Musician Dream Feels Mathematician May Working Working Life Reason Thinks
Shadow owes its birth to light. John Gay
Light Owes Birth Shadow
Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground. John Lennon
You Everybody Foot Six Loves Ground
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. John Ruskin
Work Love Together Masterpiece Expect Work Together Skill
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. John Stuart Mill
Good Freedom Long Own Others Our Way Only Pursuing Attempt Name Obtain Efforts Which Deprive Deserves
I'm quite sarcastic, and I'm funny, but not kind of funny. It's a weird funny, and some people don't get me, and some people do. Millie Bobby Brown
Funny Me People Some People Kind Some Weird Get Quite Sarcastic
Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise. Robert Baden-Powell
Accident Thinking Out Must Be Prepared Emergency Previous Never He Taken Himself Practicing How Surprise Motto Scout Any Meaning Meaning Of Act Prepare Prepared
There could be shadow galaxies, shadow stars, and even shadow people. Stephen Hawking
People Stars Shadow Could Galaxies Even
A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality? Stephen Hawking
Saying Reality Pet Picture Few Sides Gazing Distorted Out Would City City Council Council Cruel True Know Bowl Bowls Because How Fish Years Years Ago Italy Owners Goldfish View Barred Keep Keeping
The more we do, the more we can do. William Hazlitt
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Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up. A. A. Milne
Work You Before Something Mixed Up Organizing
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