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The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.


James Thomson

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KAREN THOMSON We expect that the group's strong business franchise and solid underwriting capability will underpin...
KATE THOMSON I'm kind of a tomboy, so I've always had a soft spot for action movies. I would love to do o...
CASSI THOMSON I've always been a big fan of Rachel McAdams. I saw her for the first time in 'Mean Girls,&#...
CASSI THOMSON I would love to be in 'The Hunger Games.' I'm one of the few people who haven't read...
CASSI THOMSON These guys haven't had a break for 18 months or more. It is definitely hard work, but they do get pa...
JEFF THOMSON In the end, if we don't win the Champions Trophy, who really gives a toss? For Australia, as long as...
JEFF THOMSON I have said for a long time that McGrath's best days are behind him.
JEFF THOMSON Jeez, it's not even as cold as this in my fridge back at Brisbane. [on England]
JEFF THOMSON I couldn't wait to have a crack at 'em [England]
JEFF THOMSON He'll cop it too [on Colin Cowdrey]
JEFF THOMSON I thought: 'stuff that stiff upper lip crap. Let's see how stiff it is when it's split' [on England]
JEFF THOMSON England's bowlers have improved, I'll give them that.
JEFF THOMSON We are trying to teach literature and literacy in a society which doesn't value it any more.
PAUL THOMSON Birds are everywhere in our literature, a part, it seems, of our collective poetic imagination. If w...
LYNN THOMSON The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J ARTHUR THOMSON The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. ARTHUR THOMSON There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's or...
J. ANDERSON THOMSON The lingerie department is the only one that she can reach in her wheelchair. Nevertheless, she is f...
ROSEMARIE GARLAND-THOMSON Now, Woolf calls her fictional bastion of male privilege Oxbridge, so I'll call mine Yarvard. Even t...
ROSEMARIE GARLAND-THOMSON Richie Rich, Keoki, Amanda LaPore are really successful. They've joined the culture at large.
JAMES ST. JAMES I came to NYU to study experimental theater. Shortly thereafter, I was featured in a 'Newsweek&#...
JAMES ST. JAMES