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There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

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Courage,

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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. The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
  • 2. I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades rather than whether someone's 42 or 47 you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.
  • 3. The Border Ballads for instance and the Robin Hood Ballads clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.
  • 2. The New York Quarterly is an amazing intelligent crazy creative strange and indispensable magazine.
  • 3. I have an amazing relationship with my wife but sometimes there are arguments. It happens.

3 Anger

  • 1. When anger rises think of the consequences.
  • 2. I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive ' for me is very simple. It's just about alienation really that causes anger.
  • 3. The flame of anger bright and brief sharpens the barb of love.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there take your vows and be married to them for the rest of your life.
  • 2. And this year is going to be the 25th anniversary of the 17-0 team the only undefeated season.
  • 3. See the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it the bitter honesty is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody – 'You must live life this way' – and these guys were bored.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I feel however that we architects have a special duty and mission… (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.
  • 2. The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
  • 3. Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
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