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Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections. ↗

— Archibald Alexander

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None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate. ↗

— Archibald Alexander

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Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

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I would rather exercise than read a newspaper. ↗

— Kim Alexis

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I would rather clean than beg. ↗

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

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I really like the old stuff that I cut my musical teeth on, and I loved it when the industry was just like that, without really a genre. Today, country radio's more aimed at a demographic than a genre. It just softens everything. ↗

— Gary Allan

#country #cut #demographic #everything #genre

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks. ↗

— James Allen

#duty #more #returning #than #thanks

Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it. ↗

— Karen Allen

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