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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Francis Bacon
God
Solitude
Beast
Wild
Wild Beast
Delighted
Either
Whosoever
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Francis Bacon
Age
Women
Old
Men
Young
Nurses
Mistresses
Wives
Middle
Middle Age
Companions
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Francis Bacon
Hope
Good
Breakfast
Bad
Supper
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
Francis Bacon
Patience
Soul
Possession
Out
Who
Ever
Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
George Whitefield
Motivational
Journey
You
Before
Mark
Press
Strive
Linger
Stop
Your
Forward
Set
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Problem
Solution
See
Our true nationality is mankind.
H. G. Wells
Our
True
Nationality
Mankind
From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
Hilaire Belloc
Love
Worth
Laughter
First
Beginning
Nothing
Out
Wear
Winning
Undiscovered
Friends
Quiet
Ends
Homes
To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.
Ian Botham
Positive
Good
Me
You
Sports
Win
Matter
Try
Whatever
Enjoy
Cricket
About
Sport
How
Competing
Playing
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
J. K. Rowling
Depression
Yourself
Fear
Sometimes
Pride
Hardships
Stress
Fools
Poverty
Own
Petty
Meets
Entails
Out
Thousand
Something
Climbing
Itself
Efforts
Which
Your
For me, growing up felt like a roller coaster ride at times, but looking back, I don't think that it was such a bad thing. It was all part of the excitement of being young.
Jameela Jamil
Me
Ride
Looking
Looking Back
Roller Coaster
Young
Think
Back
Bad
Bad Thing
Part
Excitement
Like
Felt
Up
Times
Roller
Roller Coaster Ride
Being
Coaster
Growing
Growing Up
Thing
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
John Dryden
Must
Would
Dive
He
Who
Search
Pearls
Below
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
John Locke
Property
Man
Own
Every
Nobody
Himself
His
Person
Right
Every Man
The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
John Ruskin
Great
Relationship
Man
First
Understanding
Doubt
Humility
Hesitation
Say
Great Man
He
Merely
Powers
Opinion
Test
His
Truly
Mean
Speaking
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison
Life
Success
Hope
You
Wise
Perseverance
Experience
Genius
Guardian
Wish
Brother
Bosom
Counselor
Make
Caution
Friend
Succeed
Elder
Your
I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.
Margaret Thatcher
Love
Me
Debate
Job
Argument
Sit
Expect
Just
Anyone
Agree
To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.
Margaret Thatcher
Socialism
Like
Cure
Trying
Disease
British
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
Margaret Thatcher
Home
Woman
Problems
Will
Country
Understanding
Running
Understands
Any
Who
Nearer
Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind.
Rafe Spall
Life
Success
Me
People
Be Kind
My Life
Parents
Important
Ambition
Cornerstone
Kind
More
Most
Most Important Thing
Always
Important Thing
Been
Than
Taught
Being
The Most Important
Success Is
Aspire
Ever
Thing
My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly powerful process, which is natural selection, has managed to take the very simple facts of physics and chemistry and build them up to redwood trees and humans.
Richard Dawkins
Life
Eyes
Natural
Physics
Simple
Build
Chemistry
Trees
Extraordinary
Constantly
Fact
Selection
Take
Facts
Open
Powerful
How
Redwood
Existence
Up
Very
Human
Just
Process
Which
Human Existence
Them
Natural Selection
Wide
Humans
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Samuel Johnson
Travel
Reality
Thinking
Imagination
See
Instead
How
May
Them
Use
Regulate
Travelling
Things
The most basic human desire is to feel like you belong. Fitting in is important.
Simon Sinek
You
Important
Feel
Like
Most
Fitting
Fitting In
Human
Basic
Belong
Desire
In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.
Stephen Hawking
Own
Stars
Think
Universe
Our
Hundred
Hundred Years
Way
Sun
Ourselves
Find
New
Years
Than
Sitting
New Way
Just
Just One
Center
Which
Galaxy
Less
Found
Now
Milky Way
Millions
I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.
Stephen Hawking
Hope
Science
People
Physics
Mystery
Understood
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Show
Helped
Profile
Raise
My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
Stephen Hawking
Simple
Understanding
Universe
Complete
Complete Understanding
Goal
Exists
Why
If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens.
Stephen Hawking
Time
Drop
Monroe
Machine
Telescope
Visit
Had
He
Prime
His
Heavens
Galileo
Turned
Her
Marilyn
Marilyn Monroe
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