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I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do anything else. So…
— Paul Auster
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Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines. From the current…
— Benigno Aquino III
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Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
— Richard Bach
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The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little bit wiser, a…
— Frank Abagnale
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I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
— Karen Armstrong
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Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam…
— Karen Armstrong
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger…
— Karen Armstrong
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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons,…
— Karen Armstrong
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Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what…
— Lance Armstrong
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Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
— Neil Armstrong
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Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and…
— Johann Arndt
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I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.
— Andrea Arnold
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This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to stop me from cracking down…
— Joe Arpaio
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Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to be liable for…
— Frank Abagnale
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When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact,…
— Antonin Artaud
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Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
— Antonin Artaud
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Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.
— Mary Kay Ash
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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
— Arthur Ashe
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I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
— Arthur Ashe
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From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those…
— Isaac Asimov
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As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to…
— Julian Assange
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If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal…
— Francis of Assisi
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