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Any man who is not a communist at the age of 20 is a fool. – Yair Lapid
Any organization consisting of three or more members existing for more than three weeks must only be serving the interests of its strongest member(s). – Abderrahman Hassi
Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. ... Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other. – Ivy Baker Priest
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead. – Erma Bombeck
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough. – George Washington Carver
Art is apotheosis; often, the complaint of beauty. – Dejan Stojanovic
As a sinner I could not please God, I could not neutralize or pay for my own sin. But when God justified me by His grace He went on record declaring me righteous. He didn't wave a magic wand and declare me to be innocent. His holiness would not permit it. A basis for declaring me righteous was needed. The ground upon which my justification is built is the substitutionary death of His son, Jesus Christ. The shedding of blood demonstrates the righteousness of God 'that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus' (Rom. 326 NKJV). What a marvelous plan Man's plan of salvation by good works is offensive to God and to anyone who has been saved by God's grace. – Larry Riemersma
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls. – M. Cartmill
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. – Andre Norton
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook. – Joseph Conrad
As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action. – Maitri Upanishads
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying. – Arthur C. Clarke
As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling Sometimes it seemed that way. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
As to diseases, make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm. – Hippocrates
Associate with the noblest people you can find read the best books live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so do not wait for, or depend on other people. – Thomas Davidson
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company. – George Washington
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. – Francis Eliza Hodgson Burnett
Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of carelessness, incapacity, or neglect. – Anonymous
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. – Mark Twain
Based on the law of probability, everything is possible because the sheer existence of possibility confirms the existence of impossibility. – Dejan Stojanovic
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter. – Paxton Hood
Be careful in revising those immigration laws of yours. We got careless with ours. – advice given to Herbert Humphrey by an American Indian from New Mexico
Be careful of whose advice and what advice you buy, even if it is for free, my advice included. – Med Jones
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. – George Washington
Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate. – Sun-tzu

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