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The office of government is not to confer happiness but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

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William Ellery Channing
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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. A man growing old becomes a child again.
  • 2. Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
  • 3. Temper never mellows with age and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I have a lot of amazing women you know women in my life who have been an example for me of what not to do.
  • 2. I know no subject more elevating more amazing more ready to the poetical enthusiasm the philosophical reflection and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety such beauty such magnificence?
  • 3. Exercise is amazing from the inside out. I feel so alive and have more energy.

3 Anger

  • 1. Forgiveness is the economy of the heart… forgiveness saves the expense of anger the cost of hatred the waste of spirits.
  • 2. When anger rushes unrestrained to action like a hot steed it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.
  • 3. Fair peace becomes men ferocious anger belongs to beasts.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
  • 2. Next month I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.
  • 3. Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I loved logic math computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.
  • 2. I studied architecture in New York. So really I was very moved like everyone else to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.
  • 3. The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.
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