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"I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a President, and I think I'll go along with them."
(John) Calvin Coolidge
"Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process."
A(ngelo) Bartlett Giamatti
"I have now reigned about 50 years in victory or peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot. They amount to fourteen."
Abd Er-Rahman III
"I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me."
Abraham Lincoln
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
Abraham Lincoln
"I may not be where I want to be, But thank God I'm not where I used to be."
Ainsley Carry
"Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections; so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways."
Akhenaton
"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus 1 day, so I never have to go through a day without you."
Alan Alexander Milne
"...One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."
Albert Einstein
"I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details."
Albert Einstein
"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
Albert Einstein
"Of all the communities available to us there is not one I would want to devote myself to, except for the society of the true searchers, which has very few living members at any time."
Albert Einstein
"The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province."
Albert Einstein
"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things."
Albert Einstein
"What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know EXACTLY what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it."
Alexander Graham Bell
"If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain."
André Maurois
"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it."
Andrew Carnegie
"Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even."
Ann Landers
"He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist."
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
"Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire."
Anwar el-Sadat
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