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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows so does the shore of our ignorance.

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John Archibald Wheeler
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Category: Knowledge

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. Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.
  • 2. It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.
  • 3. Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Emmanuel Lewis was amazing to work with. I'll love that guy to the end of time.
  • 2. If you're a basketball player and you don't stop and take pictures with your fans you can have an amazing game and everyone still loves you.
  • 3. You get moments all the time that kind of make you pinch yourself some of them make you quite emotional. Winning a BRIT was a big moment because we were just so excited to be at the awards in the first place. Selling out Madison Square Garden was pretty amazing too. Then we woke to the news that our UK tour was sold out. It was crazy.

3 Anger

  • 1. You will not be punished for your anger you will be punished by your anger.
  • 2. Anger if not restrained is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
  • 3. But on second thought after I decreed the state of emergency I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. There is no more lovely friendly and charming relationship communion or company than a good marriage.
  • 2. I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there take your vows and be married to them for the rest of your life.
  • 3. Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

5 Architecture

  • 1. I believe very strongly and have fought since many years ago – at least over 30 years ago – to get architecture not just within schools but architecture talked about under history geography science technology art.
  • 2. After about the first Millennium Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture which spread throughout Europe much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.
  • 3. No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
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