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We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
Charles Darwin
Wish
Universe
Once
Insect
Systems
Laws
Allow
Smallest
Governed
Created
Planets
Act
Special
Whole
Nay
Satellites
Universes
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
Charles Darwin
Natural
Preserved
Slight
Variation
Selection
Term
Principle
Which
Natural Selection
Useful
Each
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
Charles Dickens
Good
Words
Papa
Potatoes
Poultry
Good Words
Prism
Very
Lips
Prune
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
Charles Dickens
Eyes
Down
Temper
Countenance
Opens
Cry
Exercises
Away
Lungs
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
Charles Dickens
Day
You
Trust
Honesty
Will
Men
Face
Looking
Out
Bad
About
Bad Men
Vast
Week
Countenance
Idea
Talked
Known
Quantity
Got
Nonsense
Any
Conventional
Anything
Dishonesty
Stare
A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
Charles Lamb
Book
Dog
Better
Long
Own
Tea
Our
Ears
Topography
Has-Been
Having
Dirt
Know
Trace
Read
Known
Reads
Been
Which
Us
Muffins
Buttered
Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.
Christopher Marlowe
Love
Me
Will
Live
Valleys
Pleasures
Come
Hills
Prove
Mountain
Yields
Romantic
Woods
Fields
There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but only if you have the time.
Craig Brown
Time
You
Procrastination
Nothing
Only
Wrong
Leave
Decide
The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
Cyril Connolly
Life
Success
Calm
Wave
Harmony
Secret
Always
Existence
Up
Shore
The Secret Of
Little
Success Is
Us
Farther
Wash
Each
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
Cyril Connolly
Man
Noise
Hate
Fear
Fears
Before
Hates
Something
Noises
Becomes
Child
Who
Consequence
For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
D. H. Lawrence
Man
Bird
Beast
Flower
Alive
Vividly
Triumph
Perfectly
Most
Supreme
Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
D. H. Lawrence
Death
Creation
Down
Every
Tree
Alive
Destroys
Would
City
Abolish
Parasite
Rise
Horror
Throws
Mere
Ideal
Until
Another
Existence
Up
Itself
Accumulate
Goes
Mankind
Rear
Multiply
Swollen
Million
Save
Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
D. H. Lawrence
Freedom
You
People
Before
Slip
Allow
Freedoms
Knocks
Came
Won
Hard
Who
Away
The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.
D. H. Lawrence
Dreams
World
Wake Up
Men
Snake
Gone
Mad
Dreaming
Wake
Up
Strangling
Sleep
I love that my friends are all freaks.
Daniel Craig
Love
Freaks
Friends
Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.
Daphne du Maurier
Love
Women
Men
Short
Want
Short Story
Story
Novel
I don't regret anything, but that doesn't mean that I don't look back and think, 'What was I thinking?'
David Beckham
Regret
Think
Thinking
Back
Look
Anything
Mean
Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.
David Bowie
Music
God
Writing
Musical
Reclaim
Those
Composer
Similar
Unspeakable
Like
Pieces
Exist
Very
Effort
Being
Information
Notes
Searching
Things
All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.
David Bowie
Art
You
Humanity
Our
Focused
About
Maker
Does
How
Questions
Get
Really
Keep
I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.
David Hockney
Beautiful
Morning
Light
Miss
Like
Very
Early
Early Morning
Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
Doris Lessing
Better
Borrowing
Stealing
Begging
Than
Just
Interest
Lending
Much
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
Douglas Adams
Nothing
Continue
Happen
After
Happened
Then
Moment
Second
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
Edmund Spenser
Life
Death
War
Please
Ease
Does
Greatly
After
Stormy
Toil
Seas
Port
Sleep
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
Edward Gibbon
Conversation
Solitude
Genius
School
Understanding
Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
Edward de Bono
Life
Hope
Great
Achievement
Creativity
People
Everyone
Possibility
Worthwhile
Some
More
Gives
Idea
Sort
Because
Makes
Doing
Motivator
Interested
Interesting
Fun
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward de Bono
Humor
Significant
Most
Brain
Human
Human Brain
Far
Activity
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