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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

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. When you get to a certain age there is no coming back.
  • 2. Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
  • 3. Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle Old Age a regret.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I have a wonderful husband. I have three amazing kids.
  • 2. I suppose it's amazing how quick life goes by when you have children.
  • 3. If you're curious London's an amazing place.

3 Anger

  • 1. We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
  • 2. Fear is the only true enemy born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.
  • 3. The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.
  • 2. Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
  • 3. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

5 Architecture

  • 1. We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
  • 2. The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.
  • 3. Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore is to make those sentiments more precise.
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