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The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#difficulty #getting #government #honest #honest truth

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#deep #deep inside #helpless #infant #innocent

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained. ↗

— Lyman Abbott

#child #eternal #infinite #possibilities #sunlight

Patience is passion tamed. ↗

— Lyman Abbott

#patience #tamed

Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward. ↗

— Abdallah II

#ago #capable #class #create #easier

Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with. ↗

— Paula Abdul

#also #best #best friend #everyone #failing

You can't win unless you learn how to lose. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#how #learn #lose #unless #win

In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#athletics #been #cheat #cheating #human

I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#am #contribution #highly #i #i am

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century. ↗