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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#battles #beginning #british #came #century

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. ↗

— Diane Ackerman

#find #get #i #just #length

When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school. ↗

— Jensen Ackles

#catalogue #copies #could #did #found

I was in preschool and a girl actually kissed me on the cheek. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what it meant, so I instantly grabbed her face and kissed her on the lips. And, then I got suspended. ↗

— Jensen Ackles

#cheek #face #girl #got #grabbed

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ↗

— John Acton

#absolute power #absolute power corrupts #absolutely #corrupt #corrupts

Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will. ↗

— John Acton

#both #condition #conscience #domains #duty

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ↗

— Lord Acton

#absolute #absolute power #absolute power corrupts #absolutely #corrupt

I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery. ↗

— Red Adair

#always #cemetery #chair #friends #going

Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him. ↗

— Paula Abdul

#him #his #imaginary #imagine #kid

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#birth certificate #cents #certificate #extra #fifty