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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. At a certain age death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.
  • 2. No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life as not to receive new information from age and experience.
  • 3. I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I tend not to wear accessories. I'm not one of those gals with a drawerful of amazing jewelry. I don't even have my ears pierced! But I have one bracelet that never comes off my wrist.
  • 2. I walk into a kids' store and it's amazing the types of instruments – little squeaky things rattling things spinning tops.
  • 3. Listen a cable series is a beautiful thing because there's such amazing writing happening on television and it's a schedule that allows you to do a play or two. There's a reason everybody wants that job!

3 Anger

  • 1. I share the anger but ultimately to govern this country it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best values of the American people.
  • 2. I want to express myself to feel that what I feel is real. My joy my pain my anger.
  • 3. My friends love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. You marry somebody you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.
  • 2. Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
  • 3. Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.

5 Architecture

  • 1. There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.
  • 2. The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them not make them worse.
  • 3. We all love musical architecture there's no doubt about that.
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