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That's the amazing thing about music: there's a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck. Harry Styles
Music You Song World Amazing Every Would About Emotion Amazing Thing Suck Thing Imagine
Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go. Henry Austin Dobson
Time You Say Stays Go Goes Alas
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man. Herbert Spencer
Man Selfish Law Beast Wild Wild Beast Cage
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society. Herbert Spencer
Society Benefit Members Exists
Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding. Herbert Spencer
Life Love Love Is Wealth Ending Reward Spending Spent Never Never-Ending End Rewarded Rewarding Ever
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. Herbert Spencer
Health Few Duty Physical Seem Morality Such A Thing Conscious Thing Preservation
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. Horace Walpole
You People Society Other Nine-Tenths Would Tenth Were Want Created
You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough. Imelda Staunton
Best Good You Enough Only Do Your Best Your
A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds. J. R. R. Tolkien
Worlds Safe Untrue
A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it. J. R. R. Tolkien
Mine Tells Talk Friend Shorthand Then
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. James Anthony Froude
Character You Yourself Dream Must Hammer Forge Cannot
A car isn't a classic just because it's old. To be a classic, a car has to tell us something of its time. James May
Time Old Car Tell Classic Something Because Just Just Because Us
To receive this award from an organization I admire so much makes me totally happy and grateful. James Welch
Me Happy Grateful Organization Admire Totally Makes Much Award Receive
When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth. Jane Goodall
Life Dreams Family Me College Girl My Life Animals Back Everyone Secretary Laughed Out About Through Put Almost Over Supposed Look Passionate Go Afford Africa Laid Little Plan Little Girl Who Whose Her
My mother always used to say, 'Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God' - that's what she always said. The same God with different names. Jane Goodall
God You People Allah Mother Church Girl Worship Say Worshipping Those Must Would Born Had Names She Well Surely Said Always Go Been Up Same Egypt Different Little Little Girl Different Names Used Growing Growing Up
The question is not, 'Can they reason?' nor, 'Can they talk?' but rather, 'Can they suffer?' Jeremy Bentham
Rather Talk Nor Question Reason Suffer
It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong. Jeremy Bentham
Good People Wrong Greatest Greatest Number Which Measure Right Right And Wrong Number
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. Jeremy Bentham
Government Conspiracy Ought Secrecy System Never Instrument Being Regular
People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. Jeremy Collier
Tired People Own Nothing Quickly Who Company
You only have one go at life, which is thrilling. Only you can make yourself into who you want to be. Don't blame anybody else. You are entitled to free fresh air, and that's it. Do the rest yourself. Joanna Lumley
Life You Blame Yourself Rest Free Entitled Else Air Only Thrilling Make Fresh Fresh Air Go Anybody Anybody Else Want Which Who
I hate the hand that comes out of a car and just drops litter in the street. I hate that! For some reason, it just fills me with fury! It's just utter laziness, lack of interest in other people, lack of interest in the planet, in the hedgehog who might eat the plastic bag, it's a lack of concern. Joanna Lumley
Me Hate People Car Laziness Other Fury Out Eat Some Bag Drops Concern Hand Lack Just Interest Hedgehog Litter Might Planet Reason Who Plastic Plastic Bag Fills Street Utter
Being a unique superpower undermines the military intelligence of strategy. To think strategically, one has to imagine oneself in the enemy's place. If one cannot do this, it is impossible to foresee, to take by surprise, to outflank. Misinterpreting an enemy can lead to defeat. This is how empires fall. John Berger
Intelligence Enemy Impossible Fall Military Strategy Defeat Think Oneself Superpower Take Lead Empires How Surprise Foresee Being Cannot Place Military Intelligence Unique Strategically Imagine
That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe. John Berger
Life Beautiful Alone Single Believe Would Find Inserted More Lead Crystal Course Single Life Existence Than Us Means Less Poppy Deeply
A man will give up almost anything except his suffering. John Cleese
Man Suffering Will Give Except Almost Almost Anything His Up Anything
He who laughs most, learns best. John Cleese
Education Best Laughs He Most Learns Who
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres. John Dryden
Down Spirit Shame Breaking While Body
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