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Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big eyes, tiny nose,… — David Attenborough
We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important. You can wreck… — David Attenborough
My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So,… — Lee Atwater
Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on… — Chinua Achebe
We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. — Margaret Atwood
People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their… — Chinua Achebe
The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose. — Margaret Atwood
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's… — Chinua Achebe
I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not… — Margaret Atwood
As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from,… — Margaret Atwood
If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your… — Margaret Atwood
You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have… — Margaret Atwood
You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to… — Margaret Atwood
Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being… — Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or… — Kevyn Aucoin
Learn from your dreams what you lack. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy. — Wystan Hugh Auden
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon
In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests. — John James Audubon
To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art. — John James Audubon

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