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A civilization is built on what is required of men not on that which is provided for them.

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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. Youth is the best time to be rich and the best time to be poor.
  • 2. Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
  • 3. We are always the same age inside.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First I don't know. Second I never dreamed about that I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors – yes.
  • 2. I thought after the Pulitzer at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.
  • 3. I never travel without my Stetson but the more I wear it the more I realise that no one wears hats any more. When I was a kid everybody wore hats especially in Texas but I get off the plane in Dallas now and I'm the only guy with a hat. It's amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. Keep cool anger is not an argument.
  • 2. Anger tears me up inside… My own… or anyone else's.
  • 3. A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.
  • 2. Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union they insist there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which in my book is a good definition for friendship.
  • 3. A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort expressed in organic simplicity.
  • 2. Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.
  • 3. Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.
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