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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. It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
  • 2. Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
  • 3. All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school earlier age at the computer and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

2 Amazing

  • 1. But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it the more amazed I am by being here at all.
  • 2. I had a great time with John Duigan he's pretty amazing.
  • 3. I want to be a morning-talk-show host. I love Kelly Ripa's job. She gets to live in New York and has this amazing job hosting a talk show.

3 Anger

  • 1. I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned through experience to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.
  • 2. The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.
  • 3. Anger becomes limiting restricting. You can't see through it. While anger is there look at that too. But after a while you have to look at something else.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. I've been sober for two-and-a-half years My children are happy. In August my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.
  • 2. Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.
  • 3. So while an incredible amount of progress has been made on this fifth anniversary I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you – and fight alongside you – until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back all the way.

5 Architecture

  • 1. There is a lot of interest in the arts music theatre filmmaking engineering architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.
  • 2. Architecture is about public space held by buildings.
  • 3. Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
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