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Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in or the fortunes they have met with.

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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. Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
  • 2. It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it with very old people.
  • 3. Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I walk into a kids' store and it's amazing the types of instruments – little squeaky things rattling things spinning tops.
  • 2. I try as much as possible to give you a great basic product and what comes out I feel is really amazing.
  • 3. I've got some incredible fans actually – so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around the songs. They've got this thing called 'Floetry' where they all have to put in artwork. They've set up their own competitions and stuff which is kind of amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry count to one hundred.
  • 2. The flame of anger bright and brief sharpens the barb of love.
  • 3. The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Mr. Speaker I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1 2006.
  • 2. We can't forget what happened on May 4th 1970 when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.
  • 3. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

5 Architecture

  • 1. In fact it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.
  • 2. But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.
  • 3. Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.
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