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I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

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Alexander Woollcott
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Category: Government

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 was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.
  • 2. The secret of staying young is to live honestly eat slowly and lie about your age.
  • 3. Another principle is the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
  • 2. So when I go home sometimes even when I had an amazing game I always think about what I missed.
  • 3. But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it the more amazed I am by being here at all.

3 Anger

  • 1. Shock confusion fear anger grief and defiance. On Sept. 11 2001 and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance.
  • 2. How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
  • 3. I did not want to put myself on the line as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive possessive – and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger – or my own reputation.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The heart of marriage is memories and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns then your marriage is a gift from the gods.
  • 2. I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out she'll kill me.
  • 3. We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
  • 2. What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?
  • 3. Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
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