| attained |  Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
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| attempt | Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
Theodor Adorno
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| Auberon Herbert | The course that will restore to the workmen a father's duties and responsibilities, between which and themselves the state has now stepped, is for them to reject all forced contributions from others, and to do their own work through their own voluntary combinations.
Auberon Herbert |
| Audre Lorde | The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.
Audre Lorde |
| Audre Lorde | There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists.
Audre Lorde |
| Auguste Comte | Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
Auguste Comte |
| Auguste Rodin | The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
Auguste Rodin |
| Augustus Hare | A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.
Augustus Hare |
| Augustus Hare | It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
Augustus Hare |
| Aung San Suu Kyi | The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.
Aung San Suu Kyi |
| Austin O'Malley | When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.
Austin O'Malley |
| avalanches | Rescuers in Afghanistan dig through snow to reach hundreds trapped by avalanches that have killed at least 165 people. |
| Avi Arad | Obviously, CGI in the last ten years has gone through such leaps and bounds that today, people are looking for these kinds of movies to wow audiences with technology.
Avi Arad |
| B. Carroll Reece | In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.
B. Carroll Reece |
| Babe Ruth | Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
Babe Ruth |
| Bai Ling | I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
Bai Ling |
| Baltasar Gracian | Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
Baltasar Gracian |
| Baltasar Gracian | One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
Baltasar Gracian |
| banished | Before I began to restore these women to their dead selves through my awful work, I laid in Dracula's tomb some of the Wafer, and so banished him from it, Undead, for ever. |
| Barbara Amiel | Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control.
Barbara Amiel |
