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On neither the sun nor death can a man look fixedly.

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Death,

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Category: Death

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Utility is the great idol of the age to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
  • 2. The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
  • 3. I've always tried to do my very best and I want to be the very best age whatever age I am.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I had one drama teacher who was amazing Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.
  • 2. You can't ask every player to do the same thing. That's why we have amazing midfielders defenders forwards and keepers. You can't ask them to be of the same mold.
  • 3. It's amazing. My kids have grown me in ways I never knew possible. The patience I've received and the love I get from them is just amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.
  • 2. I like people and get along and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage.
  • 3. In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking when my anger was aroused I grabbed the nearest brick rock or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The day before the anniversary of D-Day we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.
  • 2. Love grows more tremendously full swift poignant as the years multiply.
  • 3. I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I love building spaces: architecture furniture all of it probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.
  • 2. Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.
  • 3. Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
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