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To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

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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. I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking letting yourself go.
  • 2. Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
  • 3. I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. What you know about the people whom you know at all well is truly amazing even though you have never formulated it.
  • 2. It's the degree of success and the length of time that is amazing.
  • 3. If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together and the rock industry we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen – we're such an amazing race.

3 Anger

  • 1. What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.
  • 2. My dear brothers take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen slow to speak and slow to become angry for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
  • 3. My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior but should be based on the facts.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse hopefully enduring and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
  • 2. Actually the year anniversary of what you just heard my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.
  • 3. Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary.

5 Architecture

  • 1. If architecture is as is sometimes said music set in concrete then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.
  • 2. I love a lot of things and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do whether it be gardening or architecture or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.
  • 3. Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
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