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You look at the steamboat the railroad the car the airplane – not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.

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Walter Russell Mead
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Category: Architecture

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. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
  • 2. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters economists and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
  • 3. The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Former President Bill Clinton who is widely regarded as a political mastermind may have sounded like a traditional liberal at the beginning of his term in office. But what ultimately defined his presidency was his amazing pliability on matters of principle.
  • 2. It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing.
  • 3. Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars… It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger is a good motivator.
  • 2. Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
  • 3. Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.
  • 2. The 150th anniversary of Penn State will highlight what is important and good about this distinguished institution and the fine people and research that it produces.
  • 3. 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.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I see architecture not as Gropius did as a moral venture as truth but as invention in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.
  • 2. Painting sculpture and architecture are finished but the art habit continues.
  • 3. Every man's work whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else is always a portrait of himself.
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