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I think people in Botswana are pleased that my books paint a positive picture of their lives and portray the country as being very special. They've made a great success of their country and the people are fed up with the constant reporting of only the problems and poverty of the continent. They welcome something which puts the positive side.

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Alexander McCall Smith
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Category: Positive

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. I hate to mention age but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.
  • 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. Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

2 Amazing

  • 1. On the surface rock and roll changes at an amazing pace. The influence of a figure like the Maharishi can appear and disappear in a matter of months. Talk about old fashioned rock and roll finds itself dead before it begins.
  • 2. I'm so excited for my first fragrance! I chose to partner with Dots because I love what they do for their customers bringing them the hottest trends in fashion accessories and fragrance at unbelievably low prices. It's amazing!
  • 3. Directing is a really kind of amazing thing because you're helping others and in the middle of that you have to worry about yourself.

3 Anger

  • 1. Expressing anger is a form of public littering.
  • 2. Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance respect for differences conflict resolution anger management and other attributes of peace.
  • 3. As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
  • 2. This year as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear.
  • 3. Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.

5 Architecture

  • 1. To me a building – if it's beautiful – is the love of one man he's made it out of his love for space materials things like that.
  • 2. Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
  • 3. An important work of architecture will create polemics.
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