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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. Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one let me tell you.
  • 2. What is wrong with the Iranians in addition to the nuclear bomb? This is the only country on Earth in the 21st century that has renewed imperialistic ambitions. They really want to become the hegemon of the Middle East in an age that gave up imperialism.
  • 3. What though youth gave love and roses Age still leaves us friends and wine.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I can't believe it. I'm speechless. It is amazing to see where I've come from the last two years.
  • 2. I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.
  • 3. Elle MacPherson is absolutely amazing she is just so beautiful.

3 Anger

  • 1. Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
  • 2. I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.
  • 3. We're taught to be ashamed of confusion anger fear and sadness and to me they're of equal value to happiness excitement and inspiration.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Love grows more tremendously full swift poignant as the years multiply.
  • 2. I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out she'll kill me.
  • 3. More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

5 Architecture

  • 1. People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.
  • 2. In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer and make money… and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up but I wasn't very good at it.
  • 3. Architecture should speak of its time and place but yearn for timelessness.
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