- Ability
- "We don't know who we are until we see what we can do." -Martha Grimes
- Adventure
- "Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories." -Ray Bradbury
- "Life is known only by those who have found a way to be comfortable with change and the unknown. Given the nature of life, there may be no security, but only adventure." - Rachel Naomi Remen
- "If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged." - Virginia Woolf
- Anarchy
- "If the government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means 'to declare that the government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal' would bring terrible retribution." - Louis D. Brandeis
- Anger
- "Anger is not only inevitable, but it is necessary. For in its place is indifference, the worst of all human qualities." - Anonymous
- "Of the seven deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back- in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you." - Frederick Beuchner
- "He who angers you conquers you." - Elizabeth Kenny
- Apathy
- "Indifference creates an artificial peace." - Mason Cooley
- "The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein
- "The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life but that it bothers him less and less." - Vaclav Havel
- Argument and Debate
- "Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial." - Erma Bombeck
- "The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you." - Kin Hubbard
- "There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees." - Michel de Montaigne
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