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A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

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History,

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William F. Buckley Jr.
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Category: History

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. American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
  • 2. The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?
  • 3. Traveling to Russia and Germany and being able to see the world at a young age was really cool for me and I really liked that.

2 Amazing

  • 1. So it was good for me to play a likable person and it was just an amazing situation to be in.
  • 2. My relationship with my mom is so amazing. We never got to have that stage that people go through like when you're 13 and you think you're too cool for your parents. When you're embarrassed by them and stuff. We never went through that because I was constantly working and she constantly had to be there.
  • 3. Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra I learn. They feel everything they enjoy everything they have amazing energy.

3 Anger

  • 1. As the plane got closer to Miami I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger panic despair and helplessness.
  • 2. Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all there was this sense of guilt and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.
  • 3. Allowing children to show their guilt show their grief show their anger takes the sting out of the situation.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight dinner soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays I go Fridays.
  • 2. I feel there should have been some recognition of the Spice Girls at this year's 25th anniversary. We flew the flag for Britain around the globe in the 1990s and we achieved a hell of a lot.
  • 3. See the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it the bitter honesty is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody – 'You must live life this way' – and these guys were bored.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.
  • 2. I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
  • 3. I am but an architectural composer.
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