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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
Henry David Thoreau
Distract
Our
Pretty
Inventions
Attention
Toys
End
Improved
Wont
Which
Means
Serious
Things
It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.
Julius Caesar
Sometimes
Prosperity
Men
Long
Minded
Crimes
Complete
Punish
Immortal
More
Make
Were
Reverse
Gods
Wont
Impunity
Order
Them
Might
Grant
Fortune
Suffer
Whose
My shaven head is my way of saying 'I wont take no for an answer,' it is my way of saying 'I believe in my creativity and artistry.'
Chrisette Michele
Saying
Creativity
Believe
Way
Take
Head
Answer
Wont
Artistry
Wont to unlearn from history, we aptly repeat even its most brazen mistakes.
Eskinder Nega
History
Unlearn
Mistakes
Aptly
Most
Repeat
Wont
Brazen
Even
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Isaac Asimov
Life
Men
Long
Reading
Other
Considers
Say
More
Long Life
Had
He
Contemplation
Read
Known
His
Than
Wont
Much
Should
If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.
Isaac Barrow
Strict
Church
Men
Expect
Wont
Anywhere
Bar
Swearing
Should
Therein
Serious
Play
We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.
Isaac Newton
Dreams
Nature
Simple
Own
Vain
Analogy
Our
Evidence
Relinquish
Devising
Always
Sake
Nor
Itself
Wont
Fictions
Experiments
Which
Certainly
Recede
I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to time, people articulate a view that we should ban opinion polls, but that's nonsense.
Jim Bolger
Politics
Time
People
Go Away
Think
Input
New
Opinion
Opinion Polls
Nonsense
Go
Time People
Ban
Dominant
Articulate
From Time To Time
Quite
Wont
Polls
Should
View
Fascinating
Away
By the time I'm 75 and I have a new hip, and my eyes are laser cleaned of cataracts, I wont think I'm a bionic man. I think that's just how technology works. The posthuman future of humanity will not announce itself; it will just creep up on us.
John Scalzi
Future
Time
Technology
Man
Eyes
Humanity
Will
Think
Cleaned
Announce
New
How
Hip
Up
Itself
Wont
Just
Us
Works
Laser
Creep
By The Time
Zombies have no memories of their former life. You wont see the undead trying to wash windows or do your taxes. All they know how to do is swarm and feed.
Max Brooks
Life
You
Memories
See
Windows
Feed
Know
How
Trying
Wont
Former
Taxes
Your
Wash
Zombies
You need to be feel beautiful on your own before a guy can make you feel beautiful, because it wont be a healthy relationship.
Megan Park
Beautiful
Relationship
You
Healthy
Before
Own
Guy
Feel
Make
Because
Wont
Your
Need
Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist.
Michael Hutchence
Natural
Racism
Old
Evolutionary
Through
Exist
Ultimately
Going
Wont
Essentially
Old-Fashioned
Phase
A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
Rudyard Kipling
Man
Mind
Seven
Tell
More
Tower
Him
Than
Sitting
Wont
Watchmen
You wont hear anything from me that says I didn't kill David. I did kill him.
Ruth Ellis
Me
You
Says
David
Him
Hear
Did
Wont
Anything