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I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born. — David Attenborough
When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different… — Chinua Achebe
I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty… — David Attenborough
I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and thousands of pounds… — David Attenborough
Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit… — Margaret Atwood
Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what. — Margaret Atwood
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's… — Chinua Achebe
I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew that there was… — Chinua Achebe
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
You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have… — Margaret Atwood
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies. — Dean Acheson
There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever… — Kevyn Aucoin
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — Wystan Hugh Auden
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep. — Wystan Hugh Auden
When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president. — Dean Acheson
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon
On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of… — John James Audubon
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. — Saint Augustine
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
He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent. — Saint Augustine
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances,… — Saint Augustine
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. — Saint Augustine

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