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Our intention creates our reality.
Wayne Dyer1940–2015
Beware the writer who always encloses the word reality in quotation marks: He’s trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.
Edward Abbey1927–1989
It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds.
Diane Ackermanborn 1948Often credited to Samuel Adams
Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
Ansel Adams1902–1984
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Douglas Adams1952–2001The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980)
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Scott Adams1957–2026
- Forgiveness
Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species.
Joseph Addison1672–1719The Spectator (1711–1714), No. 1 (1 March 1711)
Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieborn 1977The Danger of a Single Story, TED talk (2009)
It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.
Aesop620–564 BC
Only cowards insult dying majesty.
Aesop620–564 BC
I’m so fast that, last night, I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.
Muhammad Ali1942–2016
I don’t always know what I’m talking about but I know I’m right.
Muhammad Ali1942–2016
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
Dante Alighieri1265–1321
A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen1894–1956Treadmill to Oblivion.
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allenborn 1935“My Speech to the Graduates”