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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Category: Time

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. Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
  • 2. Age considers youth ventures.
  • 3. Live your life and forget your age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Christina Ricci is amazing the most professional actor I think I've ever met. You can be chatting with her and when they call action she's right there.
  • 2. It's amazing if you know what you want to say how fast it is to write.
  • 3. I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.

3 Anger

  • 1. The flame of anger bright and brief sharpens the barb of love.
  • 2. Us investigators who went out into the field were faced on occasion with a lot of anger by people saying why has it taken you five or six year to come and see me?
  • 3. Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union they insist there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which in my book is a good definition for friendship.
  • 2. I feel there should have been some recognition of the Spice Girls at this year's 25th anniversary. We flew the flag for Britain around the globe in the 1990s and we achieved a hell of a lot.
  • 3. Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.

5 Architecture

  • 1. 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.
  • 2. An important work of architecture will create polemics.
  • 3. Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.
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