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Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.
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Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.
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Australia is a remarkable country with incredible technical and physical resources and a capacity to be a world leader in renewables.
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Authentic Christians are persons who stand apart from others. Their character seems deeper, their ideas fresher, their spirit softer, their courage greater, their leadership stronger, their concerns wider, their compassion more genuine and their convictions more concrete.
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Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
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Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.
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Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.
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Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
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Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations.
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Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life. But of course, like autumn, it doesn't last.
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Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it.
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Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction.
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Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.
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Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.
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Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
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Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
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Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.
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Avoid such situations in which you are unnecessarily burdened with rubbish. You already have too much as it is, you need to be unburdened of it. And you go on collecting it as if it is something precious. Talk less, listen only to the essential, be telegraphic in talking and listening. If you talk less, if you listen less, slowly slowly you will see that a cleanliness, a feeling of purity, as if you have just taken a bath, will start arising within you. That becomes the necessary soil for medita
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Avoid this crowd like the plague. And if they quote you, make damn sure they heard you.
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Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.
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