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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

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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. There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.
  • 2. To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body the mind and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise study and love.
  • 3. The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood until the time comes for them to depart this life again like children neither tired of living nor aware of death.

2 Amazing

  • 1. When the youth of America gets together amazing things happen.
  • 2. Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
  • 3. As a planning board commissioner I have to review the applications for development throughout the city and the bulk of those applications have been for the waterfront. I think the progress the waterfront has made is amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world.
  • 2. Keep cool anger is not an argument.
  • 3. Your anger is a gift.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. On this important anniversary we must remember that while we have come a long way in eliminating barriers critical work remains to ensure all Americans can live up to their full potential.
  • 2. I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out she'll kill me.
  • 3. Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward and you will have the truth about him.

5 Architecture

  • 1. A house is a machine for living in.
  • 2. The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
  • 3. If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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