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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. Whatever poet orator or sage may say of it old age is still old age.
  • 2. I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
  • 3. I'm never overawed by a situation and I think that's because I've always looked several years older than I am. So because people were treating me like I was 40 when I was 29 I've always felt in control of a situation. People used to say when you're 32 you'll look 32. I'm still waiting for that moment where my age catches up with my appearance.

2 Amazing

  • 1. It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors hospitals and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors hospitals medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
  • 2. So when I go home sometimes even when I had an amazing game I always think about what I missed.
  • 3. But it was great we sit in the same dressing room where like Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was in itself something amazing – I was on the same space these guys stood on ya know?

3 Anger

  • 1. He that would be angry and sin not must not be angry with anything but sin.
  • 2. Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
  • 3. How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly.
  • 2. That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.
  • 3. I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out she'll kill me.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.
  • 2. I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.
  • 3. I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.
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