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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

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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. My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
  • 2. Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere turning its back on the political realm.
  • 3. At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry I was listening to European classical music.

2 Amazing

  • 1. It was really cool going to Sea World. We had an amazing time. They were amazing to us. We got to swim with the dolphins and it was really special.
  • 2. I thank you God for this most amazing day for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes.
  • 3. In our relationship we don't have that situation. I don't require what he needs and he doesn't require what I need. I know what I do I have an amazing life that nobody knows about.

3 Anger

  • 1. People are unjust to anger – it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.
  • 2. I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We can't express ourselves emotionally we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women.
  • 3. Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.
  • 2. Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
  • 3. My mother and stepfather were married 43 years so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And you know it's just a number.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.
  • 2. After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture not only in advanced technology allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.
  • 3. Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
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