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Method is more important than strength when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

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Strength,

Author:

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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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. At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.
  • 2. In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
  • 3. I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this it just doesn't feel right at my age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning it satisfies the senses amazingly.
  • 2. Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
  • 3. It's amazing if you know what you want to say how fast it is to write.

3 Anger

  • 1. I suppose there's an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay.
  • 2. Fear is the only true enemy born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.
  • 3. Anger if not restrained is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out she'll kill me.
  • 2. And this year is going to be the 25th anniversary of the 17-0 team the only undefeated season.
  • 3. Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.
  • 2. Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
  • 3. My passion and great enjoyment for architecture and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it is because I believe we – architects – can effect the quality of life of the people.
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