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I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
William Shakespeare
Mind
Fair
Like
Terms
Not Fair
Villain
I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
William Wordsworth
Music
Heart
Long
Bore
More
Hill
Still
Motionless
Heard
Up
Listened
After
What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.
William Wordsworth
Pride
Stars
Rocket
At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.
Queen Elizabeth II
Creative
Science
Heart
Engineering
Solutions
Find
About
Noble
Practical
Profession
Using
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
Quentin Crisp
God
You
Woman
Atheist
People
Believe
Catholics
Audience
Said
Up
Yes
Ireland
Northern
Stood
Northern Ireland
Whom
There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
Quentin Crisp
First
Worse
Dirt
Housework
Years
Get
Any
After
Four
Need
It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.
Quentin Crisp
Exhausted
Enough
Relationships
Our
Give
Give And Take
Take
Demands
Untrue
Partnership
Any
Explained
Little
Require
Flop
Graves
Last
Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.
A. A. Milne
You
Listening
Value
Nothing
Bothering
Along
Underestimate
Doing
Hear
Going
Just
Thing
Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds, by means of what are commonly termed par excellence the exact sciences, may then, with the fair white wings of imagination, hope to soar further into the unexplored amidst which we live.
Ada Lovelace
Hope
Walk
Threshold
White
Live
Imagination
Worlds
Unknown
Further
Those
Par
Exact
Wings
Excellence
Termed
Fair
Learned
Sciences
Unexplored
May
Soar
Which
Commonly
Then
Means
Who
Amidst
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
Agatha Christie
Life
Too Late
Important
Too
Late
Recognize
Until
Important Moments
Really
Moments
The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.
Agatha Christie
Good
Happy
People
Damn
Give
Good Terms
Failures
Terms
Because
Themselves
Happy People
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.
Agatha Christie
City
Detective
Detective Story
New
Itself
York
New York
New York City
Story
Ridiculous
Set
These little grey cells. It is up to them.
Agatha Christie
Intelligence
Up
Cells
Grey
Little
Them
I'm one of those introverted people who simply feels a lot better after spending time alone thinking through ideas and emotions. This is a sign, I've come to think, of a kind of emotional disturbance - a reaction to inner fragility. I wish I were more able to just act and do, rather than constantly have to retreat and examine and think.
Alain de Botton
Alone
Time
People
Emotions
Better
Wish
Think
Thinking
Spending
Spending Time
Those
Sign
Kind
Introverted
Constantly
Able
Disturbance
Examine
Rather
More
Through
Emotional
Simply
Feels
Come
Retreat
Ideas
Reaction
Were
Lot
Than
Just
After
Act
Who
Inner
Fragility
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
Alan Turing
Would
Could
Computer
Intelligent
Deceive
Human
Deserve
Believing
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
Alan Turing
Needs
Distance
Plenty
See
Only
Done
Short
In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
Alan Watts
History
People
Gone
Aggressive
Universe
Way
States
About
Had
Nobody
Altering
Known
Than
America
Capacity
United
United States
United States Of America
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
Alan Watts
God
Everybody
Admit
Rate
Point
Nobody
Any
Being
Really
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
Alan Watts
Technology
People
Universe
Destructive
Only
Hands
Same
Process
Realize
Who
Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
Aldous Huxley
Good
Hell
Good Intentions
Too
Furnished
Merely
Yes
Intentions
Them
Paved
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
Aldous Huxley
Dark
Losing
Thrive
Only
Obscurity
Like
Celery
Afraid
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Aldous Huxley
Man
Dog
Pet
Every
Constant
Napoleon
Dogs
His
Popularity
Hence
Every Man
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Aldous Huxley
Taking
Almost
Taking Things For Granted
Most
Infinite
Human
Human Beings
Capacity
Granted
Beings
Things
Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
Aldous Huxley
Science
World
Darkness
Nothing
More
Know
Becomes
Surrounding
Explained
Fantastic
Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?
Alec Guinness
Fool
Follows
More
Foolish
Who
Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.
Aleister Crowley
People
Morality
Only
Ordinary
Ordinary People
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