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- One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
- W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
- Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
- W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
- A poet's hope: to be,
like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere. - W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973), Collected Poems
- In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
- Brooks Atkinson (1894 - 1984), Once Around the Sun (1951)
- One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm;
Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; Three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. - Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992), Laws of Robotics from I. Robot, 1950
- That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.
- Neil Armstrong (1930 - ), Upon landing on the Moon, July 20, 1969
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
- Hannah Arendt (1906 - 1975)
- Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
- Muhammad Ali (1942 - ), Catch phrase
- I know why the caged bird sings.
- Maya Angelou (1928 - ), Quoting a lyric by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
- Nelson Algren (1909 - 1981), Newsweek, July 2, 1956
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