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It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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. I envy the sensibility in Europe appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.
  • 2. We live in an age of mediocrity.
  • 3. I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now maybe things would happen for me but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians 12 dancers two major guest stars 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie. The networks just wouldn't spend the money today.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I'm definitely the most tech-savvy in my family. My wife wouldn't have a clue as far as getting the computer working. All of my kids it's amazing. Like everybody's kids they're more savvy than I am probably.
  • 2. I love MySpace it's done an amazing job for me and it's been insane over the past couple of weeks but I'm not a poster girl for them.
  • 3. Nobody has it all but for me to even come close is amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. All who consult on doubtful matters should be void of hatred friendship anger and pity.
  • 2. Allowing children to show their guilt show their grief show their anger takes the sting out of the situation.
  • 3. I suppose there's an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. 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.
  • 2. Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was you could have asked the local florist – because every day Dad gave Mom a rose which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died – she went looking for him because that morning there was no rose.
  • 3. Love grows more tremendously full swift poignant as the years multiply.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I believe very strongly and have fought since many years ago – at least over 30 years ago – to get architecture not just within schools but architecture talked about under history geography science technology art.
  • 2. My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.
  • 3. In Los Angeles by the time you're 35 you're older than most of the buildings.
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