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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they… — Aristophanes
It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed… — Aristotle
I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed… — Paul Auster
Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can… — Karen Armstrong
I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas feels like ten… — Andrea Arnold
I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting,… — Bella Abzug
If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it? — Arthur Ashe
Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can… — Rowan Atkinson
Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. — David Attenborough
Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came… — Margaret Atwood
I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when the new technology… — Margaret Atwood
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before. — Saint Augustine
It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. — Jane Austen
Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years. — Paul Auster
The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I defended myself against… — Teresa of Avila
Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the… — Teresa of Avila

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