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Many men are contemptuous of riches few can give them away.

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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. Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age or in times of disability to insure financial income for their families.
  • 2. I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.
  • 3. In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it and given a family character as it were to the century.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I'm a big fan of Mashable and TechCrunch and other outlets like that but TechMeme obviously does an amazing job of aggregating.
  • 2. Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars… It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.
  • 3. It's awesome to see something like 'Inception' which is just mind-blowing and amazing and it actually resonates with the audiences. I feel like that's rare.

3 Anger

  • 1. The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
  • 2. In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
  • 3. Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time anger at what we can't do fear or even disgust at growing old.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight dinner soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays I go Fridays.
  • 2. Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
  • 3. The day before the anniversary of D-Day we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.

5 Architecture

  • 1. All real education is the architecture of the soul.
  • 2. People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course that's both liberating and alarming.
  • 3. As a designer the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.
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