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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. Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
  • 2. A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived born grows up and dies of old age in a day.
  • 3. My acting career began at age three and my parents got me into it. I was in a McDonald's commercial.

2 Amazing

  • 1. It's a melting pot southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music and it's pretty amazing.
  • 2. There's no way in the world that just because women turn the number 40 they're anything less than amazing. That's crazy. If anything you're even more amazing!
  • 3. I look up to Mick Jagger because he's an amazing performer and he's such an individual. I respect him and admire him eternally.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
  • 2. Hurt leads to bitterness bitterness to anger travel too far that road and the way is lost.
  • 3. Anger is never without an argument but seldom with a good one.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. But to sustain a marriage for 50 years you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.'
  • 2. Last week the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11 we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.
  • 3. Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Every man's work whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else is always a portrait of himself.
  • 2. Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks we must participate in the political struggle.
  • 3. Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
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