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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. Age is something that doesn't matter unless you are a cheese.
  • 2. There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English but with not one recognizable syllable.
  • 3. From the age of fifteen dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion religion as a mere sentiment is to me a dream and a mockery.

2 Amazing

  • 1. For the past 21 years I've been privileged to be part of an amazing organization called the International Women's Media Foundation.
  • 2. My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird amazing stuff.
  • 3. I was so happy that it filmed in New York not only because it's an amazing city but also because a lot of people across the world somehow started to think about New York as a dangerous place to be and envisioned it as some war zone after that happened.

3 Anger

  • 1. I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger rage fear sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.
  • 2. He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
  • 3. My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing – all those experiences led me to the paths that I'm on now.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. 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.
  • 2. I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year the 20th anniversary of my first solo record.
  • 3. Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

5 Architecture

  • 1. Prose is architecture not interior decoration and the Baroque is over.
  • 2. The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
  • 3. I see music as fluid architecture.
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