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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. A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him 'At my age I don't even buy green bananas.'
  • 2. It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.
  • 3. In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre everything is so advertised so trailed that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I always use my husband's cocoa butter stuff. He has amazing skin!
  • 2. It is spectacular. From about five minutes in when we knew for sure that we were going to have the weather to go the smile on my face just got bigger and bigger and I was just beaming through the whole launch. I mean it is just an amazing ride.
  • 3. With most British actors it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.

3 Anger

  • 1. How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
  • 2. Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
  • 3. When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.
  • 2. The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
  • 3. More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.
  • 2. I don't believe in morality in architecture.
  • 3. The architecture of our future is not only unfinished the scaffolding has hardly gone up.
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