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God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God. Stephen Hawking
God Relationship People Physics Think Someone Give Laws Rather Impersonal Name Than Personal Personal Relationship Reason Whom Here
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Susan Ertz
Death Sunday Long Sunday Afternoon Immortality Know Afternoon Themselves Who Rainy Millions
My daughter is my passion and my life. Tamara Mellon
Life Passion My Life Daughter
He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.' Terry Pratchett
Bastards He Armour Sort Wet Person Gods Stood Shouting Who Copper
Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices. Theodore Dalrymple
Great Mistakes Past Own Our Considering Our Lives Recognize Scant Selected Attention Importance Make Does Versions Psychiatrists Psychologists Us Choices Painful Avoid Resentment Lives Receives Necessity Damage Presents
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell! Thomas Fuller
Wise Man Fool Paradise Hell
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. Thomas Gray
Thoughts Words Poetry Burn Breathe
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him. Thomas Hardy
Religion Man Object Main Him Get Heaven
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. Thomas Hardy
Alone World Inquisition Poetry Had Him Said Verse Moved Galileo Might
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. Thomas Huxley
Wise Logical Men Fools Consequences Wise Men
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. Thomas Paine
Death Business Heart Will Minds Approve Pursue He Firm Unto Principles His Conduct Tis Little Little Minds Whose Shrink Conscience
The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing - there is no latest thing. It's all rubbish. Vivienne Westwood
People Somebody Vain Rubbish Latest Sexiest About Head Nobody Talking Just Hole Interested Thing Thinkers
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. W. H. Auden
Art Food Entertainment Consumed Mass New Mass Media Like Replaced Offers Intended Forgotten Dish Which Popular Media
Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties. W. L. George
Love Food Cats Pet Penalties Know Obtain Without How Shelter Labor Confinement
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. Walter Savage Landor
Music Art God Man Gift Earth Given Only Take Heaven
Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to. Wayne Rooney
You Son Father's Day Someone He Look Becoming Up Model Role Role Model Means Your Dad
It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer. William Blackstone
Better Innocent Guilty Ten Escape Than Suffer
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. William Blake
Wisdom Folly Hours Clock Measure Measured
The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist. William Blake
Thoughts Man Mind Never His Artist Heaven Who
Opposition is true friendship. William Blake
Friendship True Friendship True Opposition
Follow your honest convictions and be strong. William Makepeace Thackeray
Strong Be Strong Convictions Follow Your Honest
Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end. William Shakespeare
Time Our Waves Hasten Minutes Towards Like Make End Shore
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil. William Shakespeare
Wine Devil Thou Spirit Invisible Name Call Known Thee Us Let Us
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. William Shakespeare
Women Sky Men Changes April Wed Maids Wives May December Woo
The wheel is come full circle. William Shakespeare
Circle Come Wheel Full
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come. William Wordsworth
Clouds Birth Our Entire Come Glory Trailing Forgetfulness Forgetting Utter Sleep
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