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The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

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Courage,

Author:

Martin Luther King Jr.
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Category: Courage

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. The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood until the time comes for them to depart this life again like children neither tired of living nor aware of death.
  • 2. It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education health for people that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene.
  • 3. A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50 and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I also met early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work.
  • 2. I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing.
  • 3. It's amazing how age after age in country after country and in all languages Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

3 Anger

  • 1. Guilt is anger directed at ourselves – at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others – at what they did or did not do.
  • 2. Hatred is inveterate anger.
  • 3. Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. 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.
  • 2. Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
  • 3. The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band but now they are really another band so it's all a bit weird.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.
  • 2. Architecture theory is very interesting.
  • 3. Architecture tends to consume everything else it has become one's entire life.
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