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When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
Louis Nizer
Man
Anger
Remember
Else
Finger
Someone
Fingers
Pointing
Points
He
Himself
His
Should
Four
The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.
Margaret Thatcher
Envy
Build
Destroy
Spirit
Never
To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.
Margaret Thatcher
Me
Values
Abandoning
Seems
Something
Objects
No-One
Policies
Principles
Process
Which
Beliefs
Believes
Consensus
Great leaders don't need to act tough. Their confidence and humility serve to underscore their toughness.
Simon Sinek
Great
Confidence
Tough
Humility
Great Leaders
Toughness
Leaders
Underscore
Act
Serve
Need
Stem cell research is the key to developing cures for degenerative conditions like Parkinson's and motor neuron disease from which I and many others suffer. The fact that the cells may come from embryos is not an objection, because the embryos are going to die anyway.
Stephen Hawking
Key
Research
Others
Embryos
Objection
Fact
Parkinson
Stem
Stem Cell
Stem Cell Research
Developing
Come
Like
Because
Motor
Conditions
Cures
Disease
Cell
Die
Cell Research
Going
Cells
May
Anyway
Which
Many
Suffer
In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.
Stephen Hawking
Me
Physics
School
Father
Thought
Made
Chemistry
Biology
Jobs
Would
Would-Be
He
Because
Boy
Least
Math
Mathematicians
Did
Wanted
Less
Bright
Brightest
Conflict is drama, and how people deal with conflict shows you the kind of people they are.
Stephen Moyer
You
Conflict
People
Drama
Kind
Deal
How
Shows
Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.
Terry Pratchett
You
Too Late
Fate
Too
Late
Out
Find
Throw
He
Along
Most
Queens
Chess
Been
Dice
Gods
Playing
Two
Plays
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Terry Pratchett
Funny
People
Mind
Will
Insist
Trouble
Having
Open
Put
Open Mind
Along
Course
Coming
Trying
Things
There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.
Thomas Hardy
Worse
Seeing
Something
Blindness
Condition
Than
Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.
Thomas Tusser
Nature
Spring
Sweet
April
May
Showers
Flowers
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
William Blake
Love
God
Mercy
Too
Dwell
Dwelling
Where
Pity
God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
William Cowper
God
Plants
Way
Mysterious
He
Perform
Footsteps
His
Wonders
Moves
Storm
Sea
Rides
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
William Shakespeare
Time
Me
Doth
Now
Waste
Wasted
Wasted Time
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
William Shakespeare
Slow
Stumble
Run
Wisely
Fast
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
William Shakespeare
Yourself
Furnace
Foe
Hot
Heat
Your
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
William Wordsworth
Heart
Communication
Paper
Your
Fill
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
Aldous Huxley
Education
You
Yourself
Valuable
Ability
Like
Most
Make
Done
Whether
Thing
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
Aldous Huxley
Soul
Fate
Collaborated
Some
Directed
Only
My Soul
Mastered
Am
Passenger
Nor
Cannot
Captain
Thereby
Extent
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
Aldous Huxley
War
Democracy
Country
Unless
Tyrant
Must
No Country
Obedient
Head
Perfectly
Highly
Democratic
Well
Makes
Scientific
Governed
Cease
Effectively
Trained
Bureaucracy
Modern
Modern War
Which
Really
Even
Prepared
Prepares
Necessarily
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
Alexander Pope
Man
Eyes
World
Glasses
Own
Magnifying
Look
Greatest
His
Person
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Happiness
Life
Man
Consist
Absence
Mastery
Does
Passions
His
A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sympathy
Crown
Remembering
Sorrow
Times
Happier
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Life
Love
Thankful
Hope
Thanksgiving
Fear
Too Much
Men
Free
Somewhere
Whatever
Living
Too
Winds
Rise
No Life
Never
River
Safe
Dead
Up
Thank
Gods
May
Much
Sea
Even
Brief
Ever
Lives
Set
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Charles Buxton
Time
You
Will
Must
Find
Never
Make
Want
Anything
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Charles Dickens
Best
Worst
Times
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