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The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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Category: Power

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. Here's a proposal offered only partly in jest: no resident of the United States whether born here or abroad should get to be a citizen until age 18 at which time each such resident has to take a test.
  • 2. In the age of the individual's liquidation the question of individuality must be raised anew.
  • 3. You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I have a full life: I have two amazing kids I have great friends great family. And right now that's plenty for me to manage. A new relationship just seems like way too much work.
  • 2. Moby Dick – that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed that's how my book begins too but I hadn't noticed the parallel before two characters forced to share a bed reluctantly.
  • 3. My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird amazing stuff.

3 Anger

  • 1. The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.
  • 2. Expressing anger is a form of public littering.
  • 3. The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. A lot of good love can happen in ten years.
  • 2. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
  • 3. The 150th anniversary of Penn State will highlight what is important and good about this distinguished institution and the fine people and research that it produces.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.
  • 2. The architecture of our future is not only unfinished the scaffolding has hardly gone up.
  • 3. Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
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