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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

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Fear,

Author:

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Category: Fear

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. Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
  • 2. Working on the 'Ice Age' movies I'm really proud to be in them.
  • 3. The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. When things happen – you ask yourself why today why not tomorrow why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.
  • 2. The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap is it not?
  • 3. I'm proud of the U.S.A. We've done some amazing things. To wear our flag in the Olympics is an honor.

3 Anger

  • 1. When I was younger I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.
  • 2. Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.
  • 3. When anger rushes unrestrained to action like a hot steed it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. A lot of good love can happen in ten years.
  • 2. We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we changing continue to love a changed person.
  • 3. So I think you have to marry for the right reasons and marry the right person.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
  • 2. My buildings will be my legacy… they will speak for me long after I'm gone.
  • 3. 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.
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