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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.


Annie Dillard

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ANNIE LEIBOVITZ The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut ...
ANNIE BESANT Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivi...
ANNIE BESANT I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and...
ANNIE PROULX All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunde...
ANNIE BESANT The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.
ANNIE BESANT Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to...
ANNIE BESANT Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rare...
ANNIE BESANT This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law d...
ANNIE BESANT I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect...
ANNIE BESANT There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won t.
ANNIE LENNOX Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and galla...
ANNIE BESANT I fell in love with the darkroom, and that was part of being a photographer at the time. The darkroo...
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ Premonitions, presentiments, the sensing of unseen presences and many allied experiences are due to ...
ANNIE BESANT Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical...
ANNIE BESANT I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambi...
ANNIE LENNOX You'd just be amazed what people will do. You really would. And not crazy people. Ostensibly nor...
ANNIE PARISSE I think human self-hatred may be the great untold story of the millennium. It's the common threa...
ANNIE GOTTLIEB I don't think feminism is about the exclusion of men but their inclusion... we must face and add...
ANNIE LENNOX The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of th...
ANNIE BESANT Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
ANNIE BESANT Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led ...
ANNIE BESANT I have a reputation for being cold and aloof, but I'm so not that woman. I'm passionate. I l...
ANNIE LENNOX