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To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

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Christopher Hitchens
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Category: Experience

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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. Age does not protect you from love. But love to some extent protects you from age.
  • 2. Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
  • 3. A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

2 Amazing

  • 1. And I thought when I have kids that's the sort of well told silly and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them to. But it was an amazing experience. And I think Shrek is a real classic a fairy tale classic.
  • 2. I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach and I never rose above the level of mediocre.
  • 3. Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.
  • 2. What starts the process really are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence personal gut performance.
  • 3. You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry terribly angry about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening May 15 1876 at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
  • 2. You marry somebody you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.
  • 3. My mother and stepfather were married 43 years so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And you know it's just a number.

5 Architecture

  • 1. What's fascinating about D.C. the exteriors are these elaborate structures this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework and then you go inside and it's crap-looking – apart from the White House which is beautiful.
  • 2. I see music as fluid architecture.
  • 3. Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.
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