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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
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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
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Learn from your dreams what you lack.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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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
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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
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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
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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
— Marcus Aurelius
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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
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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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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
— Jane Austen
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Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over…
— Paul Auster
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Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.
— Paul Auster
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Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
— Alfred Austin
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Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.
— Diane Ackerman
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life…
— Emilie Autumn
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Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
— Teresa of Avila
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