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A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten ' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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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. When you're my age and you see a story you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.
  • 2. I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal even for my age.
  • 3. This is the first convention of the space age – where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

2 Amazing

  • 1. When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring but it's not. It's enriching and fulfilling and an amazing experience. And then when you're a working mother you have to pretend that you feel guilty all day long.
  • 2. Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways it's much more personal. I love music and being able to work on that is amazing.
  • 3. It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cricket.

3 Anger

  • 1. Hurt leads to bitterness bitterness to anger travel too far that road and the way is lost.
  • 2. Our task of course is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think in fact that one could give that as a definition of revolution.
  • 3. Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Last week the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11 we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.
  • 2. Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.
  • 3. You will reciprocally promise love loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today before God you formulate.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.
  • 2. Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
  • 3. After about the first Millennium Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture which spread throughout Europe much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.
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