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I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape. Thom Yorke
Music Important Sense Think About Most Most Important Thing Important Thing Escape The Most Important Thing
Between the uprightness of my conscience and the hardness of my lot, I know not how either to show respect to my feelings or to the times. The bitterness of my mind urges me at all hazards to speak what I think, whereas the necessity of the times prompts me, however unbecomingly, to keep silence. Good God! Which way shall I turn myself? Thomas Becket
God Myself Good Me Silence Respect Speak Mind Bitterness Feelings Think Way Shall Hazards Between Know How However Lot Times Whereas Either Which Turn Urges Show Keep Conscience Hardness Necessity
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. Thomas Beecham
Music Great Memory Difficulty Magical Great Music Facility Never Leaves Which Ear
If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse. Thomas Fuller
Home Will Horse He Come Goes Travelling
Abused patience turns to fury. Thomas Fuller
Patience Fury Abuse Turns
Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness. Thomas Fuller
Kindness Revenge Men Prone More Than Injuries
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity. Thomas Hardy
People Care Honor Nowadays Everybody Distinction Those Only Remain Obscurity Talented Real Who Deserving
The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. Thomas Hobbes
Roman Empire Other Ghost Crowned Empire Than Deceased Sitting Roman Thereof Grave
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. Thomas Huxley
Patience Worth Brainy More Tenacity Weight Cleverness Than Twice
I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first. Thomas More
God Faith King First Faithful Die Servant
I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself. Thomas More
Myself Law Other Would Protect Uphold Reason
It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes. Thomas Paine
God Good Bible Devil Name Just
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad. Thomas Paine
Good Religion Man Every Bad Know Him None Teaches
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities. Thomas Paine
Religion See Blasphemy Absurd New Call Revealed Testament Contradictions New Testament Species
You affect the world by what you browse. Tim Berners-Lee
You Technology World Browse Affect
Everything is a railway junction where past and future are sliding over one another, not touching. Timothy Morton
Future Past Everything Sliding Touching Over Another Past And Future Junction Where Railway
Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming. Tom Hiddleston
Fighting Dreaming Never Never Stop Stop
I don't understand people getting depressed about getting older. There is nothing you can do about it, so you might as well embrace it. Twiggy
You People Getting Older Nothing Older Embrace About Well Understand Getting Depressed Might
I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it. Vivian Stanshall
Myself You Being Myself Desperate Think Phony Only Join Know Sake Being Different Being Different Your Gang
You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries, you've got to find out the names of plants. You've got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We're amazing people. Vivienne Westwood
Love Art You People Genius World Amazing Plants Out Find About Invest Names Know Read Got Go Amazing People Human Race To Love Galleries Human Race Whole Start
Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes. Vivienne Westwood
Buy Quality Clothes Too Everybody Well Make Quantity Far Choose Less Many Last Buying
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. W. H. Auden
Other Eye Bored Impatient Tends Lazy Hand Repetition Familiar Shocked Unexpected Craves Novel Ear
The world worries about disability more than disabled people do. Warwick Davis
People World Worries About More Disability Disabled Than
Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best. Wayne Rooney
Time Best Perfect Partners Partnerships Limited Limited Time Exist Conditions Which Themselves Express
Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you. William Blake
You Man Speak Mind Will Ready Always Your Avoid Base
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care. William Blake
Worth Care Made Men Idiot Weak Weak Men Obscure Grand Which Explicit Necessarily
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