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We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence but we cling desperately to our chains.

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Anne Sullivan Macy
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Category: Imagination

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. Sure I played did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
  • 2. A moment comes which comes but rarely in history when we step out from the old to the new when an age ends and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.
  • 3. Utility is the great idol of the age to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

2 Amazing

  • 1. My mom can't defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman with such an open heart. It's a real hard line and I crossed it. I took everyone's life story and assumed it would be a great thing to put on screen. I was being selfish and I feel so horrible about it. I feel so guilty.
  • 2. One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.
  • 3. I started crying the other day just thinking that the baby is going to leave me soon! You have this relationship with this person in your belly and it's really amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. Somebody hits me I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a while.
  • 2. You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry terribly angry about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.
  • 3. Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas is a glaring injustice which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
  • 2. The 150th anniversary of Penn State will highlight what is important and good about this distinguished institution and the fine people and research that it produces.
  • 3. We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I call architecture frozen music.
  • 2. I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture as long as they are done properly.
  • 3. Of course I know very little about architecture and the older I get the less I know.
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