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They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Category: Great

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

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1 Age

  • 1. At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
  • 2. I started in the restaurant business at the age of 19 as a waitress. I loved the atmosphere and the camaraderie of the restaurant business. I loved not having to go to an office. I loved making people happy.
  • 3. My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life I just spend drinking.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity and yet how amazing is it nothing is less practiced?
  • 2. I have experienced some amazing food! Yet when I think about the most luxurious and exquisite meals I have had visions of simple food made from a few natural ingredients are what most excite me.
  • 3. The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area the better.

3 Anger

  • 1. Fair peace becomes men ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
  • 2. Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
  • 3. Yeah to me acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
  • 2. So I think you have to marry for the right reasons and marry the right person.
  • 3. Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward and you will have the truth about him.

5 Architecture

  • 1. It was the drawing that led me to architecture the search for light and astonishing forms.
  • 2. Until the Eighties Oslo was a rather boring town but it's changed a lot and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.
  • 3. Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
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