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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue. — Mary Astell
People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their… — Chinua Achebe
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood
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
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has… — Jane Austen
Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of… — Ibrahim Babangida
Kids don't go out and buy CDs, they make their own, they download them from the Internet. — Sebastian Bach
People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. — Michele Bachmann
What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else,… — Erykah Badu
Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them… — Ansel Adams
The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist… — William Barclay
Patriarchy is impotent and qualitatively unable to solve even the most simple problems in the cosmos such as picking up their own socks or placing… — Roseanne Barr
It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money. — Dave Barry
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little… — Bruce Barton
Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned. — William Bartram
Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is… — Abu Bakar Bashir
They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be… — Frederic Bastiat

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