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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.

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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. It's not catastrophes murders deaths diseases that age and kill us it's the way people look and laugh and run up the steps of omnibuses.
  • 2. It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact no matter how suspect is superior to any imaginative exercise no matter how true.
  • 3. In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

2 Amazing

  • 1. There's no question 'Amazing Race' is a beautifully produced show.
  • 2. Work hard be kind and amazing things will happen.
  • 3. It's amazing that this is all happening to Lost in Space.

3 Anger

  • 1. I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger or I'd have to accept that it happened.
  • 2. I was shocked at the anger toward me.
  • 3. Let us not look back in anger nor forward in fear but around in awareness.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly.
  • 2. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
  • 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. When I write now I do not invent situation characters or actions but rather structures and discursive forms textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves as in architecture or the plastic arts.
  • 2. At this present time matter is still the best way to think of architecture but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.
  • 3. Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
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