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A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. ↗

— Kevyn Aucoin

#barbra streisand #cher #growing #growing up #ideals

I'd make a bad preacher. ↗

— Dan Aykroyd

#i #make #preacher

Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours. ↗

— Robert Ballard

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My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#converts #different #different parts #early #father

Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher. ↗

— Konrad Adenauer

#calves #choose #only #own #stupidest

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage. ↗

— Kate Adie

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For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased. ↗

— Aeschines

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I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery. ↗

— Aeschylus

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So all the system was running down and collapsing. Mrs. Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975, and she clearly wanted to strike out and do something different. ↗

— Kenneth Baker

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