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Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought… — Chinua Achebe
I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly in his 30s… — Rowan Atkinson
Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression. — Rowan Atkinson
In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's a spy and… — Rowan Atkinson
But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right… — Chinua Achebe
Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating… — David Attenborough
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
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
Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the… — Wystan Hugh Auden
If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. — Wystan Hugh Auden
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do… — 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
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. — Saint Augustine
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. — Saint Augustine
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are… — Saint Augustine
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. — Marcus Aurelius

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