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Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
A. A. Milne
Me
You
Thought
Would
Never
Never Forget
Because
Leave
Forget
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
A. A. Milne
Liar
Name
Well
Make
Effort
May
Deserve
Tiggers don't like honey.
A. A. Milne
Honey
Like
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley
You
Own
Universe
Corner
Only
Self
Improving
Certain
Your
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
Aldous Huxley
Life
Nature
People
Consistency
Consistent
Only
Dead
Contrary
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
Aldous Huxley
God
Strength
Travel
Man
Soul
Heart
Stillness
Mind
Become
Hunger
Must
Would
Mystic
He
Road
Uncontrolled
Obstacle
Along
Learn
His
Passively
Off
Intensely
May
After
Far
Cutting
Desire
Desires
Thirst
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
Aldous Huxley
Life
Man
Power
Every
Ways
Significant
Magnify
He
Make
Himself
Read
Knows
How
His
Exists
Which
Interesting
Full
Who
Multiply
Every Man
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
Aldous Huxley
Fools
First
Innovators
Dread
Madmen
About
Vast
Vast Majority
Generally
First Appearance
Majority
Always
Been
Persecuted
Familiar
Human
Human Beings
Which
Dislike
Notions
Beings
Appearance
Even
Hence
Actually
Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
Aldous Huxley
Best
Man
Situation
Nothing
Cynical
Intolerable
Excuse
Doing
Intelligent
Realism
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
Aldous Huxley
Intelligence
Vision
Intolerance
Clarity
Ardor
Remarkable
Curiosity
Children
I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.
Aleister Crowley
Myself
Woman
World
Kiss
First
Lust
Spent
Touch
Like
First Kiss
Boy
His
Asking
Next
Utterly
Imagine
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
Aleister Crowley
Law
Thou
Wilt
Shall
Whole
I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.
Aleister Crowley
Word
Devil
Become
Sense
Believe
Him
Content
His
Chief
Get
Personal
Staff
Wanted
Hold
Ordinary
Ordinary Sense
Personally
Serve
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Alexander Pope
You
Men
Unknown
Must
Proposed
Taught
Forgot
Them
Things
Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you.
Anna Lee
Smile
You
World
Remember
Will
Face
Back
Sun
Though
Outside
Outside World
Soon
Smiling
Might
Show
Even
Keep
Raining
'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth.
Annie Besant
History
Man
Natural
Impossible
Hero
Solar
Moon
Myth
Inevitable
Year
Positions
Changing
Relative
Way
Indeed
Sun
Easter
Dates
Point
Anniversary
Calculated
Calculating
Historical
Very
Festival
Fixing
Movable
The History Of
Event
Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
Arthur C. Clarke
Alone
Sometimes
Space
Think
Universe
Case
Idea
Quite
Staggering
Either
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
Arthur C. Clarke
Science
Politicians
Detective
Detective Stories
Read
Science Fiction
Westerns
Fiction
Stories
Should
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
Ben Jonson
Success
Confidence
Reputation
Ruins
Negligence
Had
Industry
Accuracy
Which
Produces
Raised
If you choose to take a path in life, don't blame other people for the path you've chosen to take.
Bernard Sumner
Life
You
Blame
People
Path
Other
Take
Choose
Chosen
The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.
Brian May
Creation
Emotion
Optimism
Biggest
Bridge
The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else.
Brian May
Guitar
Nothing
Else
Possessed
Kind
Excitement
Grit
I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.
Cara Delevingne
Life
School Days
School
Wish
Back
Later
Could
Longer
Days
Go
Little
Dragged
On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
You
Confusion
Will
Apprehend
Machine
Rightly
Out
Kind
Able
Could
Put
Wrong
Come
Ideas
Occasions
Am
Answers
Pray
Been
Question
Provoke
Asked
Figures
Right
Two
Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
Charles Caleb Colton
Integrity
Simple
Nothing
Trick
Himself
Another
Than
Duplicity
Straightforward
Full
Who
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
Charles Caleb Colton
Integrity
Simple
Nothing
Trick
More
Another
Than
Duplicity
Straightforward
Full
Who
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