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It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions – especially selfish ones.

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Category: Failure

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. I'm 20 years old. I like to party as much as anyone my age. Going clubbing is my way of relaxing or releasing a lot of stress. I don't feel that I should have to justify that part of my life. I don't know that I'm necessarily an addict.
  • 2. Old age is far more than white hair wrinkles the feeling that it is too late and the game finished that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body but the indifference of the soul.
  • 3. I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.
  • 2. I get such lovely gifts from fans… amazing pictures handmade jewellery. I'm very lucky!
  • 3. It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.

3 Anger

  • 1. An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
  • 2. Discussion is an exchange of knowledge an argument an exchange of ignorance.
  • 3. Let us not look back in anger nor forward in fear but around in awareness.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. 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.
  • 2. Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
  • 3. Mr. Speaker I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1 2006.

5 Architecture

  • 1. We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
  • 2. Architecture aims at Eternity.
  • 3. Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.
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