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Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I… — 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
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. — Wystan Hugh Auden
In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he… — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until… — Wystan Hugh Auden
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although… — John James Audubon
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations… — Saint Augustine
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. — Saint Augustine
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty. — Saint Augustine
To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. — Marcus Aurelius
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. — Marcus Aurelius
Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty… — Sri Aurobindo
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. — Jane Austen
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. — Jane Austen
One man's style must not be the rule of another's. — Jane Austen
We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans. — Alan Autry
My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair. — Diane Ackerman
All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted. — Teresa of Avila
What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear… — Teresa of Avila
O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to… — Teresa of Avila
A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in… — Teresa of Avila
We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race. — Dan Aykroyd
A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back… — Sai Baba
You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song. — Sai Baba

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