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Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own… — Francis of Assisi
Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail. — Mary Astell
I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's a rural heart.… — Rodney Atkins
Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but… — Kate Atkinson
The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful… — Chinua Achebe
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions… — David Attenborough
The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find a missing link… — David Attenborough
When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. — Chinua Achebe
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that. — Margaret Atwood
Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets. — Margaret Atwood
Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're addicted… — Margaret Atwood
Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that… — Margaret Atwood
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession. — Wystan Hugh Auden
If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance. — Norman Ralph Augustine
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come… — Saint Augustine
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other… — Saint Augustine
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The… — Marcus Aurelius
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. — Jane Austen
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. — Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. — Jane Austen
It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end… — Paul Auster
No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much… — Paul Auster
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. — Alfred Austin
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects… — Teresa of Avila

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