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Only the contemptible fear contempt.

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Fear,

Author:

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are – to see the way they are as a strength and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt is already accomplished.

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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. It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear in terms of concept… It's not about age. It's about taste and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.
  • 2. Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much we feel so little.
  • 3. Sally Field looks amazing in general never mind her age! She's a phenomenally talented actress and has had a career spanning so many decades.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Half a century ago the amazing courage of Rosa Parks the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.
  • 2. I was about 14 and my friend's stepdad asked me to do a 10K with him because his son – who was more into basketball – didn't want to. It was amazing and I still remember the time I got: 48:23.
  • 3. Yes the companionship is amazing. You know you can get that physical attraction that happens is great but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.

3 Anger

  • 1. There is not in nature a thing that makes man so deformed so beastly as doth intemperate anger.
  • 2. There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror.
  • 3. For every minute you remain angry you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. 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.
  • 2. 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.
  • 3. Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was you could have asked the local florist – because every day Dad gave Mom a rose which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died – she went looking for him because that morning there was no rose.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
  • 2. I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
  • 3. If architecture had nothing to do with art it would be astonishingly easy to build houses but the architect's task – his most difficult task – is always that of selecting.
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