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A civilization is a heritage of beliefs customs and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries elements difficult at times to justify by logic but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere since they open up for man his inner distance.

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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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. Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.
  • 2. I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.
  • 3. The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age and an age is heroic because of what it is not because of what it does.

2 Amazing

  • 1. It is amazing that something I did 23 years ago still has an audience that people respond to and I am touched and surprised that people are still very positive about.
  • 2. I just feel energized when I am around young talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me.
  • 3. I would love to work with Paolo Nutini because he is so soulful and an amazing songwriter.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger is a good motivator.
  • 2. Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.
  • 3. The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Marriage is the most natural state of man and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.
  • 2. Mr. Speaker I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1 2006.
  • 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. The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them not make them worse.
  • 2. No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
  • 3. But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.
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