#nin

India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#ages #beginning #cannot #even #her

Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#dismantle #ever #government #pentagon #proposal

All of us want to have meaning in our lives and want to feel like we're doing something that makes a difference. I believe we're doing that in the Justice Department. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#department #difference #doing #feel #i

We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#far #faraway #future #happening #here

You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing. ↗

— Arthur Ashe

#going #got #important #life #losing

I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me. ↗

— Nickolas Ashford

#dry #five #front #got #happen

We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and encamped on a spot of ground where several thousand Indians had wintered during the past season. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#descended #down #during #encampment #ground

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#control #destroy #enough #even #ignorance

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

#pardoning

If I were beginning my career today, I don't think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at the moment. And although I am not up to date technologically, I suspect that somewhere out there people are conveying things about natural history by means other than television, and I think if I were beginning today, I'd be there. ↗

— David Attenborough

#although #am #beginning #career #conveying