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I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life. ↗

— Clay Aiken

#decided #education #fell #i #individuals

I kind of had my life planned out for me. I'd be married at some point, have, you know, 1.5 children, and be a principal possibly one day. But I think that that was kind of my problem. I allowed myself to plan out my life and didn't let provident direction guide my life. ↗

— Clay Aiken

#children #day #direction #guide #had

It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote. ↗

— Todd Akin

#essential #even #form #government #idea

For better or for worse, I've watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And they're not cynical. In the end, they wanna hold somebody's hand. And that's real to me. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#cynical #die #end #front #hand

Saddam's goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#cannot #destruction #enhancing #goal #him

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#cannot #company #feel #finds #himself

A building or a town will only be alive to the extent that it is governed in a timeless way. It is a process which brings order out of nothing but ourselves; it cannot be attained, but it will happen of its own accord, if we will only let it. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#alive #attained #brings #building #cannot

This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#becomes #build #cannot #coherent #fundamental

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#evil #exist #good #whereas #without

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness. ↗

— James Allen

#called #channels #easy #energy #fall