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Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots. David Byrne
Everything Intentional Just Dots Filling
I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do. David Byrne
Trouble Could Beyond Practicality Imagining
The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day. David Byrne
Day Great Voting Old Young Rich Neighborhood One Day Booth Out Joint Poor Turn Decrepit Whole Leveler
I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn. David Byrne
Bit Brooklyn Armstrong Get Manhattan Place Little Little Bit Lance Armstrong Bike Use
I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff. David Byrne
Music Home Musicians Try Band Own Out More Studio Stuff Devote Making Lot Friends Than Trying Hanging Influence Afternoon Subtly Your Fun
Everything in the world is purchased by labor. David Hume
World Everything Purchased Labor
Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding. David Hume
Reflection Understanding Eloquence Address Willing Entirely Highest Leaves Affections Itself Pitch Little Room Reason Captivating Desires
The law always limits every power it gives. David Hume
Law Power Every Gives Always Limits
And what is the greatest number? Number one. David Hume
Greatest Greatest Number Number
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. David Hume
Alone Society Our Possessions Insatiable Ourselves Destructive Directly Goods Perpetual Friends Acquiring Nearest Universal
Men often act knowingly against their interest. David Hume
Men Knowingly Often Interest Against Act
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. David Hume
Liberty Lost Once Kind Seldom Any
Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches. David Hume
Government Wise People Will Every Secure Easy Abound Most Rendering Well Always Condition Subjects Commodities Just Riches Mild
All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book. David Livingstone
Faith Me Book Christ Divine Revealed Am His Owe Jesus Jesus Christ
Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create. David McCallum
Creative Fear Energy Drained Immorality Burdens Heavy Conformity Us Create Creative Energy Drain
People who know, know. The others, it really doesn't matter. David McCallum
People Matter Others Know Really Who
To me, it feels like 'The Doctor' has to have a long coat, and that's something imprinted on me from childhood, because he always did. And there's something heroic in a flapping coat, but at the same time, I need to get rid of it sometimes and just be a scrawny guy in a suit that doesn't quite fit. David Tennant
Time Me Doctor Sometimes Long Just Be Heroic Something Guy He Feels Like Because Always Fit Imprinted Get Did Same Quite Childhood Just Same Time Rid Coat Need Suit
Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky. Deborah Kerr
Time Man Women Met Think Right Man She May Personally Lucky Right By The Time
Go on, then, and let your intent be seriousness. Donald Cargill
Go Intent Then Your Seriousness
Farewell, dearest friend, never to see one another any more till at the right hand of Christ. Donald Cargill
Christ Sympathy See More Never Another Till Dearest Dearest Friend Hand Friend Any Farewell Right Right Hand
I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned. Donald Cargill
God Great Man Has-Been Through Never Had Mercies He Sound Been His Sinned Sins Quiet Now Conscience
But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so. Donald Cargill
You Fool Generation Champion Think This Generation Valiant Say Though Ministers Go Die Unfaithful Lukewarm Professors
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness. E. T. Bell
Fitness Art Mathematics Creative Simplicity Feeling Past Sense Guided Indefinable Rather Only Inspired Generality Prospect Ultimate Mathematicians Than Any In The Past Usefulness Now Things Symmetry
Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities. Evelyn Glennie
People Society Assumptions Ability Individual Through Categorize Make Another Continue Cannot Themselves Need
I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf. Evelyn Glennie
Musician Deaf Happens Who
A lot of things which come with a high profile will always be criticised one way or another. Evelyn Glennie
Will Way High One-Way High-Profile Come Another Always Lot Which Profile Things
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