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I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#been #classic #country #enduring #enough

The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#china #currency #empire #hard #infusion

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order. ↗

— Idi Amin

#any #country #die #law #make

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#directed #greater #lesser #more #often

One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them. ↗

— Kingsley Amis

#benefits #carry #forgive #forgiven #great

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun. ↗

— Martin Amis

#cannot #gun #out #recalled #taken

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy. ↗

— Martin Amis

#conspiracy #evil #fiction #goes #mind

You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star. ↗

— Martin Amis

#cannot #combine #movie #movie star #star

I lost a company. So what? It's just stuff. Can't take it with you. ↗

— Wally Amos

#i #just #lost #stuff #take

Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest. ↗

— Lewis Gilbert

#blackest #chemist #damned #guardian #perchance