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If we resist our passions it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Category: Strength

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. Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless of course you happen to be a bottle of wine.
  • 2. At my age no one is married no one has kids no one has a career.
  • 3. I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.

2 Amazing

  • 1. It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they were and what they could do.
  • 2. The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.
  • 3. Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. It absolutely helped – to write the father in both 'Juicy' and 'Beasts ' I had to see the whole story from his point of view. All of a sudden I understood more of what my own father must be going through – the fear the frustration the anger… the hope that he'll leave a legacy.
  • 2. I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger revenge or frustration.
  • 3. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. There is no more lovely friendly and charming relationship communion or company than a good marriage.
  • 2. Love grows more tremendously full swift poignant as the years multiply.
  • 3. Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.

5 Architecture

  • 1. If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
  • 2. Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
  • 3. Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
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