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| | The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
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| Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
| | A. E. Housman,
1859-1936, English,
Poet |
| Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.
| | Adela Florence Nicolson,
1865-1904, English,
Poet |
| Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
| | Adrienne Rich,
1929-, American,
Feminist and Poet |
| Text-messaging or The Sun, these are perfect Orwellian ways of limiting the vocabulary and thus limiting the consciousness.
| | Alan Moore,
1953-, British,
Writer |
| Underneath the superficial self, which pays attention to this and that, there is another self more really us than I.
| | Alan Watts,
1915-1973, English,
Philosopher |
| There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life.
| | Albert Bandura,
1925-, Canadian,
Psychologist |
| The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
| | Albert Camus,
1913-1960, French Algerian,
Author and Philosopher |
| I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.
| | Albert Camus,
1913-1960, French Algerian,
Author and Philosopher |
| Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you don't help us, who else in the world can help us do this?
| | Albert Camus,
1913-1960, French Algerian,
Author and Philosopher |
| Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
| | Albert Camus,
1913-1960, French Algerian,
Author and Philosopher |
| The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
| | Albert Schweitzer,
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| Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
| | Albert Schweitzer,
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| Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
| | Albert Schweitzer,
1875-1965, French,
Theologian |
| Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
| | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,
1918-, Russian,
Author |
| To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.
| | Alex Grey,
1953-, American,
Artist |
| Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.
| | Alfred A. Montapert,
, American,
Author |
| Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.
| | Allen Ginsberg,
1926-1997, American,
Poet |
| All education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.
| | Alvin Toffler,
1928-, American,
Writer and Futurist |
| Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.
| | Anaxagoras,
, Greek,
Philosopher |
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