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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others but only those who have greater designs.

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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. I don't know whether it's age or maturity but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.
  • 2. Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
  • 3. Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

2 Amazing

  • 1. One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns and that's what we love and that's what we get off on.
  • 2. When you think of what Americans accomplished building these amazing cities and all the good it's done in the world it's kind of disheartening to hear so much hatred of America not just from abroad but internally.
  • 3. When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning it satisfies the senses amazingly.

3 Anger

  • 1. People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world.
  • 2. I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up at sometimes. I don't drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. 'Nil By Mouth' was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him.
  • 3. George wrote Taxman and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we changing continue to love a changed person.
  • 2. There is no more lovely friendly and charming relationship communion or company than a good marriage.
  • 3. Love grows more tremendously full swift poignant as the years multiply.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture art and architecture and learned of the existence of the game of GO which I still play.
  • 2. The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.
  • 3. Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore is to make those sentiments more precise.
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