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Everybody knows someone like that: wonderful, attractive people full of passion and ideals. You envy them, but you know there's a dark side, which is brutal and cruel and violent. That dark side informs what's wonderful about them, and the passion and rage inform the darkness; they're inseparable. David Thewlis

You People Wonderful Dark Darkness Envy Passion Dark Side Rage Everybody Side Inseparable About Someone Brutal Cruel Like Ideals Know Attractive Attractive People Knows Inform Which Informs Them Full Violent

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. Doris Lessing

Books are sharks... because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark. Douglas Adams

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts. Elizabeth I

Lion Nature Destruction Fear Small Beasts Mice Cannot Descend

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive. Elizabeth Taylor

People Example Living Through Go Survive Survivor

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart. Emmeline Pankhurst

Justice Lie World Judgment Often Apart

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. Francis Bacon

Man Revenge Enemy Superior He Taking Over Passing His Even

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. George Edward Moore

Art Alone Me You Garden Valentines Day Men Seen Singing Other Enough Spend Dim Alive Thou Thou Art Angels Feel Hours Look Make Sort Said Am Thee Twilight Fountain

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. H. G. Wells

War Time Will Made Men Own Politician Those Promoted Come Dock Sure Surer Private Than Stake Much Gamble Should Reasonable Who International Lives Homicide

A week is a long time in politics. Harold Wilson

Politics Time Long Long Time Week

All socialism involves slavery. Herbert Spencer

Government Socialism Involves Slavery

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly. Hilaire Belloc

Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epistles to the seven churches, except to those who 'overcome.' Where there is grace, there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight. J. C. Ryle

Fight Conflict Grace Overcome Christ Will Promises Saved Seven Soldier Churches Those Must Except Without Always Souls Lord Lord Jesus Where Laid Holiness Warfare Us Who Fought Found Believer Jesus Necessity

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. J. K. Rowling

Dreams Live Does Forget Dwell

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. J. R. R. Tolkien

You Half Like Know Well Than Should Less Deserve

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, 'Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what's the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?' Jane Goodall

Everything starts with one step, or one brick, or one word or one day. Jeremy Gilley

Day Word Starts Everything One Day One Word Step Brick

I love being a grandmother. That feeling you have for your own child - you don't ever think it will be replicated, and I did wonder if I would have to 'pretend' with my grandchildren. But my heart was taken on day one. Joanna Lumley

Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities. John Berger

Future Man Ethics Difficult Say No Future Determine Without Priorities Itself Cannot Them Mankind Choices Actions Suggest

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee. John Gay

Love Will Follow Thee Flee

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