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Once men are caught up in an event they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

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Courage,

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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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. It's not always possible to sit down and eat at home in this day and age of fast-paced living but if you are going to eat out do so as a family and support all the great local places in your areas. I'll still eat at the same diner I did as a kid with my parents.
  • 2. Reading after a certain age diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
  • 3. Life an age to the miserable and a moment to the happy.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Childbirth is more admirable than conquest more amazing than self-defense and as courageous as either one.
  • 2. If you have only 95 minutes of material make an only 95-minute movie. Amazing how often that's forgotten.
  • 3. I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples – Natalie Portman Joseph Gordon-Levitt Jodie Foster Drew Barrymore – of people who have made it through.

3 Anger

  • 1. Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
  • 2. The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
  • 3. It's a very difficult thing for people to accept seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Love grows more tremendously full swift poignant as the years multiply.
  • 2. You marry somebody you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.
  • 3. And this year is going to be the 25th anniversary of the 17-0 team the only undefeated season.

5 Architecture

  • 1. What people want above all is order.
  • 2. Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.
  • 3. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building or architecture is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite.
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