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Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

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Knowledge,

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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. I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.
  • 2. In fact my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'
  • 3. We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill… it demands a broader vision capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.

2 Amazing

  • 1. My family has been amazing and they understand how blessed I am. They've been able to keep my sense of humor.
  • 2. My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid I would do the dumbest trick which now that I look back on some things she would love it she would say that's amazing or if I'd make the ugliest drawing she would hang it up. She was amazing.
  • 3. At 13 when I was a runaway I was taken in by the most amazing drag queens in Portland Ore. We didn't always know where our next meal was coming from but there was so much camaraderie and love. Not to mention those girls could paint a face and I learned how because of them.

3 Anger

  • 1. Yeah to me acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.
  • 2. Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger it's motivation.
  • 3. A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like you're not gonna pull one over on me – which is pretty much my motto anyways.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Marriage is the most natural state of man and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.
  • 2. I did that Dior Couture 60th anniversary show in July. It took so long to get ready I think I would have rather been watching.
  • 3. A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love trust partnership tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Don't clap too hard – it's a very old building.
  • 2. A city building you experience when you walk a suburban building you experience when you drive.
  • 3. Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
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