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• We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
• It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
• Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. — Margaret Atwood
• Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
• One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best. — Jane Austen
• The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In… — Paul Auster
• As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,… — Diane Ackerman
• It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. — Teresa of Avila
• The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
• We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health… — Diane Ackerman
• Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens. — Peter Ackroyd
• We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right… — Michele Bachmann

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