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All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. ↗

— James Lane Allen

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I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full. ↗

— Arthur Ashe

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When all else fails, complicate matters. ↗

— Aaron Allston

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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way. ↗

— Aaron Allston

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Most of the provisions designed to fix what ails our health system don't kick in until 2014, which, one wishes administration officials had noticed, is two years after he has to win an election. ↗

— Eric Alterman

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Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

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When I do fall in love, I'll go to the ends of the earth for that person. I'd lay down on a carpet of nails for the person I love. ↗

— Peter Andre

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At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails. ↗

— Piers Anthony

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Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels. ↗

— Piers Anthony

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There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be. ↗

— David Antin

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