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I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very formalized when I…
— Margaret Atwood
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I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,' or 'Nobody under…
— Margaret Atwood
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Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not…
— Margaret Atwood
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Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they don't know what's…
— Margaret Atwood
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no…
— John James Audubon
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I…
— Saint Augustine
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Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
— Saint Augustine
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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what…
— Saint Augustine
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Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
— Jane Austen
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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
— Jane Austen
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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
— Jane Austen
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I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing.
— Paul Auster
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What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the rent. Now that…
— Paul Auster
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I love to write and to get to know the people who are listening.
— Emilie Autumn
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
— Teresa of Avila
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
— Teresa of Avila
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