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In formal logic a contradiction is the signal of defeat but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

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Alfred North Whitehead
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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. Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
  • 2. There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.
  • 3. I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.

2 Amazing

  • 1. So for my studio purposes I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and to my power amps and I know what I can deliver out of my studio.
  • 2. I had an amazing childhood.
  • 3. Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.
  • 2. If anger proceeds from a great cause it turns to fury if from a small cause it is peevishness and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.
  • 3. Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice ambition envy anger and pride if these were to be banished we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. My last trip to New Orleans was for the fifth anniversary of Katrina and I had the awesome opportunity to bring my family down. We all worked on a house together and met some of the families.
  • 2. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
  • 3. The heart of marriage is memories and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns then your marriage is a gift from the gods.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.
  • 2. We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
  • 3. Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore is to make those sentiments more precise.
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