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"Their superstition exposes them to the rapacity and tyranny of a numerous priesthood ‘Mullahs,’ ‘Sahibzadas,’ ‘Akhundzadas,’ ‘Fakirs,’"

Winston Churchill· b. 1940View quote →

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"Their superstition exposes them to the rapacity and tyranny of a numerous priesthood ‘Mullahs,’ ‘Sahibzadas,’ ‘Akhundzadas,’ ‘Fakirs,’"

"And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of treesand changing leaves."

"This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge, keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal, and do well."

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🇬🇧Alfred North Whitehead

Philosophy

1861–1947

"Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."

"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."

"The great Emathian conqueror bid spareThe house of Pindarus, when temple and towerWent to the ground."

"On seeing the Enterprise's warp engine while visiting the set of Star Trek: The Next Generation (where he would briefly play himself in the 1993 episode Descent, Part I), Hawking smiled and said: I'm working on that."

"Why that's a hundred miles away. That's a long way to go just to eat."

"We no longer have to resort to superstition when faced with the deep problems: Is there a meaning to life? What are we for? What is man?"

"There is nothing small in God's eyes; let there be nothing small in thine."

"Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real."

"The Exclusion Principle is laid down purely for the benefit of the electrons themselves, who might be corrupted if allowed to associate too freely."

"If there is no complete agreement between the results of one's work and the experiment, one should not allow oneself to be too discouraged."

"Maybe this world is another planet’s hell."

"To be a person, a being must be self-conscious, aware of its identity and its continued existence over time."

"Heterosexuality is far too interesting a phenomenon to be ignored."

"You can't break my spirit, it's my dreams you take."

"We all wanna feel great. We all wanna look great, have more energy. The most important thing is about having the right fuel in your body. I can't remember feeling this great in my whole 32 years of my life."

"I have no problem with them imitating . It's a compliment. Everybody has to start out looking up to someone. For me it was James Brown, Sammy Davis Jr., Jackie Wilson, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly."

"Thank you to every American who has not sued me so far."

"All jokes about religion cause offence, so it's pointless apologising for them."

"I did something particularly heinous that allowed me to wake up. I had to lose something. Sometimes you have to lose something that is worth more to you than your drinking."

"That doesn't feel like politics to me. Stuff like equality feels much more fundamental. I feel like everyone is equal."

"I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir."

"I used to refer to myself as Typhoid Mary. It wasn't that I was jinxed, I just seemed to bring ill fortune to anybody I was close to."

"I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pet them, but I am intoxicated by animals."

"Coming to believe that my life could be different, that I could be restored to sanity, was an integral step in my recovery from addiction. I believe it is vital too on a social scale."

"P.S. Managed to avoid the hoyden Emily Thompkinson, who has purloined my creation and added things of her own. Nefarious Creature!"

"An effective HR professional would probably be a mature person, one who has lived and who has been "knocked about" by life. Because if you have not experienced life, how can you share that experience with people?"

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🇬🇧W. Somerset Maugham

Literature

1874–1965

"Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother."

"My name is Jimmy Carter, and I'm not running for president."

"I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore"

"The more a man grasps and knows, the greater is the horizon which opens up before him."

"The window opened gently and a still Autumn night entered cat-like. Edwin smelt freedom and London autumn – decay, smoke, cold, motor oil."

"There is a kind of synergy between the different forms of work, you’ll learn things from one sort of work that will have tremendous application in another. They all tend to pull each other forward."

"All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs."

"Boyfriends? In my life I have had three. Three. Only a handful of people have seen into the Pharaoh's tomb."

"You really don’t have a life when you’re working. I always think "oh, I’m gonna see everybody on my days off. I’m gonna read so many books and see so many films" and then three months go by..."

"For the present the Grammar may yet be of service. After an eight years' life and... 4000 copies, it reappears in a revised and enlarged form."

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"he British workman has more to hope for from the rising tide of Tory democracy than from the dried up drain-pipe of Radicalism."

— Winston Churchill, b. 1940View →

"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."

— Charles Dickens, b. 1719View →

"I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact."

— Winston Churchill, b. 1940View →

"Description of the tribal areas of what is now Pakistan, commonly referred to as Waziristan"

— Winston Churchill, b. 1940View →

"What does the brain matter compared with the heart?"

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