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"'At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge,' said the gentleman, taking up a pen, 'it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. ... We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices.'"	Charles Dickens
"...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
"A book is a friend; a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still; and there are not many friends who know enough to do that."	B. A. Billingsly
"A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control."	Robert F. Bennett
"A friend is somebody you want to be around when you feel like being by yourself."	Barbara Burrow
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."	Gerald R. Ford
"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
"A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table."	Jean Kerr
"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be."	Rosalynn Smith Carter
"A lot of advertisers lined up to throw money at this stuff because they were caught up in the hysteria about the Web. But now they want to know how you make money selling a $1.59 bottle of dish detergent on the World Wide Web."	Karen Burka
"A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done."	Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi
"A man is successful if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between; does what he wants to do."	Bob Dylan
"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to need, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it."	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd."	Max Lucado
"A stiff apology is a second insult…. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt."	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron."	Horace Mann
"Acceptance. It is the true thing everyone longs for. The one thing everyone craves. To walk in a room and to be greeted by everyone with hugs and smiles. And in that small passing moment, you truly know you're loved, needed, and accepted."	Rena Harmon
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."	Aristotle
"All I want to be is normally insane."	Marlon Brando
"All men by nature desire to know."	Aristotle
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Abd Er-Rahman III	Abraham Lincoln	Ainsley Carry
Akhenaton	Alan Alexander Milne	Albert Einstein
Alexander Graham Bell	Andrew Carnegie	André Maurois
Ann Landers	Anton Pavlovich Chekhov	Anwar el-Sadat
Aristotle	Athenæus	A(ngelo) Bartlett Giamatti
Barbara Burrow	Barbara Charline Jordan	Bernard Edmonds
Bernard Mannes Baruch	Bethania McKenstry	Bhagavad Gita
Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba	Bob Dylan	Bob Moawad
Bruce Lee	Buonarroti Michelangelo	B. A. Billingsly
Catfish Hunter	Cathleen Douglas	Charles Dickens
Charles Bukowski	Charles Roberts Buxton	Child Age 13
Child Age 15	Christopher Darlington Morley	Claude Adrien Helvetius
Clifton Paul Fadiman	Clint(on) Eastwood, Jr.	Clive Alexander Barnes
Clive Staples Lewis	Confucius	Curtis Grant
Dag Hjalmar Agné Carl Hammarskjold	Dale Carnegie	Damien Hess
Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin	Daniel Patrick Moynihan	David Broder
David Havard	David McCord	Dennis McKinsey
Diane Ackerman	Dick Allen	Donald Robert Perry Marquis
Dr. Arthur Kellerman	Dwight David Eisenhower	D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
Edmund Burke	Edward Dahlberg	Edward R(oscoe) Murrow
Elias Canetti	Ella Fitzgerald	Emma Albani
Epictetus	Epicurus	Erich Fromm
Eric Butterworth	Eric Hoffer	Eric Lustbader
Erma Louise Bombeck	Ernest Miller Hemingway	Eubie
Euripides	Eustace Budgell	Federico Fellni
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky	Fran Lebowitz	Francis William Bourdillon
Frank Herbert	Frederick Douglass	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
F(rancis) Scott	F. H. Bradley	Galileo Galilei
Gamal Abdel Nasser	Garrison Keillor	Garry Gamble
General Charles De Gaulle	Geoffrey F. Abert	George Eliot
George Dana Boardman	George Foreman	George Frost Kennan
George Gordon Byron	George Stanley McGovern	Georg Christopher Lichtenberg
Gerald R. Ford	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Golda Meir
Gurdjieff	Gustave Flaubert	Gérard Depardieu
G. Campbell Morgan	Hal	Harold Howe II
Harold S. Geneen	Helen Adams Keller	Helen Merrell Lynd
Henrik Ibsen	Henry Hitt Crane	Herbert Clark Hoover
Honoré de Balzac	Horace Mann	H(elena) P(etrovna) Hahn Blavatsky
H. Jackson Browne	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jacques Martin Barzun
James Arthur Baldwin	James Lane Allen	Janet Jackson
Jane Austen	Jan Ashford	Jean de La Fontaine
Jean Kerr	Jeff Herman	Jerry Lewis
Jesse Lair	Jiddu Krishnamurti	Joe Moore
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Blofeld	John Burroughs
John B. Gough	John Cleese	John Dryden
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Kenneth Galbraith	Joseph Brooks
Joseph Conrad	Joseph Wood Krutch	Josh Billings
Juvenal	J(ames) William Fulbright	J. Brotherton
J. F. Boyse	Kahlil Gibran	Karen Burka
Kathe Kolliqitz	Kurt Lewin	Lady Nancy Astor
Lawrence Peter Berra	Leonard Bernstein	Leonardo DiCaprio
Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca	Lillian Hellman	Lisa Alther
Louis Kronenberger	Lyndon Baines Johnson	Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Marcus Tullius Cicero	Margaret Mead	Margaret Anderson
Maria Montessori	Mario M(atthew) Cuomo	Mark McGee
Marlon Brando	Marquis de Sade	Martin Luther
Martin Luther King, Jr.	Mary Ingraham Bunting	Maxim Gorky
Max Lerner	Max Lucado	Michael Korda
Michael Landon	Michel Eyquem de Montaigne	Michio Kushi
Mignon McLaughlin	Mike McLaren	Miles Dewey Davis
M. Shawn Covey	Napolean Hill	Neill MacRae
Niccolo Machiavelli	Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev	Ogden Nash
Orison Swett Marden	Paul Beatty	Paul Hawken
Percy H. Johnson	Phillip K. Dick	Phillips Brooks
Philo Judaeus	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Ralph Bunche
Raymond Holliwel	Ray Douglas Bradbury	Rena Harmon
Rene Descartes	Richard Lamm	Richard Milhouse Nixon
Richard M. Mathews	Robert Baker	Robert Francis Kennedy
Robert Fritz	Robert F. Bennett	Robert Henri
Robert Joseph "Bob" Dole	Robert Lee Frost	Romare Beardon
Rosabeth Moss Kanter	Rosalynn Smith Carter	Saint Augustine
Sally Field	Samuel Goldwyn	Samuel Butler
Sandra Cisneros	Shakti Gawain	Shirley Mount Hufstedler
Sigmund Freud	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	Sir Francis Bacon
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Smiley Blanton	Sophia Loren
Stuti Garg	Sydney J. Harris	Taylor Hanson
Terry Goodkind	Thomas Jefferson	Tibetan Doctrine
T. S. Eliot	Ursula K. LeGuin	Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi
Vinny Nayak	Virginia Hanson	Walter Frederick Mondale
Warren G. Bennis	William Blake	William Hazlitt
William James	William Adams	William E. Holler
William Seward Burroughs	William Sherman Pene du Bois	Witold Gombrowicz
Woody Allen	Wystan Hugh Auden	Zelda
Zora Neale Hurston	(John) Calvin Coolidge