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Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

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C. Northcote Parkinson
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Category: Politics

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. Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
  • 2. Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire it wafts across the electrified borders.
  • 3. What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties mental and physical but the burden of one's memories.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I think what's really amazing is that given the scale of the web and getting the compute power we have today we're starting to see things that appear intelligent but actually aren't semantically intelligent.
  • 2. I just wanna thank all those amazing Internet bloggers out there that hate me day-to-day. I love you! You rock!
  • 3. We start 'The Butler' in June and that's incredibly exciting for me because I get to work with the amazing Forest Whitaker again. It's a phenomenal script and a great great role – I play his son. Oprah Winfrey is his wife and my mother. My character is a radical civil rights activist.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger's not a good emotion.
  • 2. All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.
  • 3. I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have and it's cathartic as well because I create art out of anger something positive out of something negative.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. On July 18 we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires Argentina.
  • 2. The heart of marriage is memories and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns then your marriage is a gift from the gods.
  • 3. I am so excited this year getting to play the 85th Anniversary Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Everyone knows on Thanksgiving morning to get up turn on the TV and watch the parade so to be an actual participant is going to be fun and I'm looking forward to it. I am gonna have to put on my deer hunting gear though to stay warm!

5 Architecture

  • 1. I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.
  • 2. There is a powerful need for symbolism and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.
  • 3. Architecture begins where engineering ends.
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