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You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward. ↗

— Andre Agassi

#best #dad #even #forward #going

The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth. ↗

— Louis Agassiz

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Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948. ↗

— Gianni Agnelli

#before #bombed #bombing #cities #civil

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children. ↗

— Ama Ata Aidoo

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They had always told me that I wrote like a man. ↗

— Ama Ata Aidoo

#had #i #like #man #me

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead. ↗

— Conrad Aiken

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People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way. ↗

— George Aiken

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There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants. ↗

— Daniel Akaka

#civil #civil servants #crisis #decades #develop

I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?' ↗

— Malin Akerman

#american idol #auditions #before #first #guys