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No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high idealistic motives and idealism in our time has been shoved aside and we are paying the penalty for it.

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Alfred North Whitehead
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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. Where children are there is the golden age.
  • 2. I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.
  • 3. I want to sell to people my own age because that's the way I write songs.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Luckily I have some amazing friends.
  • 2. Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways it's much more personal. I love music and being able to work on that is amazing.
  • 3. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind amazing things will happen.

3 Anger

  • 1. Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.
  • 2. What I needed most was to love and to be loved eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy by suspicions and fear by burst of anger and quarrels.
  • 3. I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.
  • 2. It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.
  • 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. Architecture is the learned game correct and magnificent of forms assembled in the light.
  • 2. Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort expressed in organic simplicity.
  • 3. I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.
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