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To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking knowledge which in fact we do not possess is likely to make us do much harm.

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Friedrich August von Hayek
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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. I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you you should stay home and have a good cry.
  • 2. I love things that age well – things that don't date that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.
  • 3. We virtually never feel our age but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Pebble Beach. It is tough and the lay out is amazing.
  • 2. Most New Yorkers want to look amazing and they want you to understand that they look amazing but they also want you to stop staring at them.
  • 3. I'm lucky that most of the time I'm on location in amazing places. Most of the time I don't need holidays I just stop working.

3 Anger

  • 1. Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast or murder thy friend.
  • 2. I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up at sometimes. I don't drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. 'Nil By Mouth' was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him.
  • 3. I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested but I went into a diversion programme and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. But to sustain a marriage for 50 years you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.'
  • 2. Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.
  • 3. Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
  • 2. I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.
  • 3. Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
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