You can't help people that don't want to be helped. - John Armstrong

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Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which.

John Armstrong

You can't help people that don't want to be helped.

Help, Helped, Helping, People, Want

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Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain.

Allays, Carpe Diem, Expels, Grief, Pain, Softens

Know, then, whatever cheerful and serene supports the mind supports the body too.

Health, Know, Mind, Serene, Support

Money can purchase the symbols but not the causes of serenity and buoyancy. In a straightforward way we must agree that money cannot buy happiness.

Buoyancy, Buy, Happiness, Serenity, Straightforward, Way

For want of timely care Millions have died of medicable wounds.

Care, Death, Died, Science, Wounds

How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams. His pow'rs the most voluptuously dissolve In soft repose; on him the balmy dews Of Sleep with double nutriment descend.

Dream, Invokes, Sleep, Soft, Toil, Voluptuously

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Brie Larson

I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different creative ways. It gave me the opportunity to travel and play music, so it was good for me.

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Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which.

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Emily Dickinson

I felt a Cleaving in my Mind- As if my Brain had split- I tried to match it- Seam by Seam- But could not make it fit.

Brain, Cleaving, Mind, Splits

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We must uncover our rituals for what they are: completely arbitrary things, tied to our bourgeois way of life; it isgood-and that is the real theater-totranscend them in the manner of play, bymeans of games and irony; it is good to be dirty and bearded, to have long hair,to look like a girl when one is a boy (and vice versa); one must put "inplay," show up, transform and reversethe systems which quietly order us about.

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