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The word 'God' usually signifies 'Lord', but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God. Isaac Newton
God Spiritual Word Every True Supreme Makes Lord Dominion Being Which Imaginary
Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion. Israel Zangwill
Religion Atheism Only Unselfishness Real Selfishness Aspiration
All men ought to think of Christ, because of what Christ will yet do to all men. He shall come again one day to this earth with power and glory, and raise the dead from their graves. All shall come forth at His bidding. Those who would not move when they heard the church-going bell, shall obey the voice of the Archangel and the trump of God. J. C. Ryle
God Day Obey Christ Will Men Power Think Ought Earth Those One Day Would Voice Shall He Come Dead Bidding Because Glory His Heard Trump Move Again Forth Who Graves Bell Raise
The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you. J. K. Rowling
You Old Responsibility Enough Lies Take Wheel Old Enough Moment
So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending! J. R. R. Tolkien
Ending Fire Snow After Even Dragons
'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.' J. R. R. Tolkien
Life Time Thought Wish About Take He Know Short Wants Languages Things
A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen. J. R. R. Tolkien
Me Pen Hen
You can't take good health for granted. Jack Osbourne
Health Good Good Health You Take Granted
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. Jacob Bronowski
Knowledge Edge Uncertainty Adventure Unending
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. Jacob Bronowski
Important Barefoot Worship Students Studies Known Question Irreverence Certain Bring Here
Vengeance is the act of turning anger in on yourself. On the surface it may be directed at someone else, but it is a surefire recipe for arresting emotional recovery. Jane Goldman
Anger Yourself Recipe Else Someone Directed Recovery Emotional Vengeance Surface Arresting May Turning Act
Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way. Jay Kay
Life You Respect Yourself Way More Private Private Life Get Your Keep
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. Jeremy Bentham
Ignorance Legal Law Punished Only Lawyers Persons Whom
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot. John Bunyan
Will Our Minds More Foot Outward Comfort Than Quiet Golden Us
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul. John Dryden
Jealousy Soul
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. John Dryden
Today Alone Man Happy Tomorrow Own Say Worst Secure He Thy Call Within His Who Lived
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit. John Dryden
Life Hope People Consider Favor Fooled Cheat Deceit
I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute. John Keats
Death Walks Luxuries Possession Brood Minute Both Could Over Hour Same Loveliness Them Your Two
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility. John Lennon
Responsibility Gave Possibilities Possibility Had Glimpse Answer Did Just Sixties Us Show Thing
The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it? John Lennon
People Live Living Society Guarding We Cannot Ourselves Something Take Wrong Nobody Sort Without Accessories Making Normal Any Cannot Against Mean Ask Us Why Thing Basic
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. John Locke
Love Truth Truth Is Will Mark Assurance Entertaining Proposition Greater Built Than Any Warrant
The true measure of life is not length, but honesty. John Lyly
Life Honesty True True Measure Length Measure
Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction. John Owen
Food Man Destruction Poison Temptation Throat Knife Like Exercise His May Either Cut Meat
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. John Ruskin
Reward Become Highest Person Get Toil
When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package. John Ruskin
Man Wrapped Pretty Small He Himself Makes Up Package
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. John Stuart Mill
Good Will Power Own Community Others Rightfully Member Moral Physical Only Prevent Purpose Civilized Over His Any Either Which Against Warrant Sufficient Harm
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