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People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your… — Chinua Achebe
The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life. — Rowan Atkinson
Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn… — Rowan Atkinson
Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You've… — Rowan Atkinson
I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature… — David Attenborough
Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on… — Chinua Achebe
I particularly like Twitter, because it's short and can be very funny and informative. It's a little bit like having your own radio program. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — 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
Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such… — Margaret Atwood
If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your… — Margaret Atwood
If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author… — Margaret Atwood
To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? — Wystan Hugh Auden
Learn from your dreams what you lack. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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 desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is… — Saint Augustine
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. — Marcus Aurelius
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. — Marcus Aurelius
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to… — Marcus Aurelius
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. — Marcus Aurelius

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