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It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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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. Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.
  • 2. I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It's crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age.
  • 3. Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I knew I'd just done one of the most amazing things that I will ever get a chance to do. Just to be part of a musical that's not your background and to pull it off and to think that we've done something that's really special.
  • 2. Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
  • 3. Men are amazing. I love the way they are. They're consistently little boys and they need to be nurtured and loved. But at the same time they need to feel like men.

3 Anger

  • 1. When you are offended at any man's fault turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
  • 2. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
  • 3. The intoxication of anger like that of the grape shows us to others but hides us from ourselves.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Love grows more tremendously full swift poignant as the years multiply.
  • 2. Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
  • 3. You marry somebody you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.

5 Architecture

  • 1. But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard which didn't last very long.
  • 2. Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
  • 3. The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
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