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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. You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
  • 2. As long as any adult thinks that he like the parents and teachers of old can become introspective invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him he is lost.
  • 3. The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood until the time comes for them to depart this life again like children neither tired of living nor aware of death.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts just some doubling.
  • 2. I had an amazing experience working with great people. I had a great family a typical family with drama in certain areas and that's pretty much everywhere in everyone's life.
  • 3. Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
  • 2. The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
  • 3. How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The day before the anniversary of D-Day we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.
  • 2. Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union they insist there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which in my book is a good definition for friendship.
  • 3. 1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness patriotism and heroism by our troops our National Guard and Reserves.

5 Architecture

  • 1. They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
  • 2. The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
  • 3. The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.
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