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We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.


Mortimer Adler


#concerned #exclusively #good #others #ourselves

The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country.


Mahmoud Ahmadinejad


#big #consider #country #cultural #dominate

Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture.


Steve Albini


#before #blindfolded #enlightening #know #more

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.


Madeleine Albright


#democracy #disease #fight #freedom #intimidated

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.


Thomas Bailey Aldrich


#gives #seldom #selects #translation #true

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.


Louisa May Alcott


#feelings #find #governing #hard #i

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.


Louisa May Alcott


#been #called #given #kingdom #long

I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.


Isabel Allende


#aware #better #conveyed #even #fiction

This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.


Richard V. Allen


#country #free #gospel #land #mother

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.


Isabel Allende


#coming #death #end #freedom #haunt






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