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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate you are sure to wake up somebody.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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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. The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?
  • 2. Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.
  • 3. If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

2 Amazing

  • 1. I'm crazy about my father he's an amazing man a real adventurer. He took us with him to travel all over the world. We were in places that were so remote that white people hardly ever reach them.
  • 2. Housing Works is the coolest thrift store in the world because not only are they the best thrift store – they're not the most thrifty thrift store – but they have amazing stuff and all of their proceeds go directly to kids mostly homeless kids living with AIDS and HIV in New York in the metropolitan area.
  • 3. Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.

3 Anger

  • 1. The opposite of anger is not calmness its empathy.
  • 2. I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time then you really don't have a good life.
  • 3. I know to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there take your vows and be married to them for the rest of your life.
  • 2. Marriage is the most natural state of man and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.
  • 3. Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I call architecture frozen music.
  • 2. My passion and great enjoyment for architecture and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it is because I believe we – architects – can effect the quality of life of the people.
  • 3. All those involved in the construction of an architectural design from the architect to the builder have an attachment to the architecture although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.
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