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It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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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. My wife and I unlike many intellectuals spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.
  • 2. Whatever poet orator or sage may say of it old age is still old age.
  • 3. I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65 you've got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise you are just existing.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I think this is the biggest win in my career. To beat Venus in Wimbledon is just something amazing.
  • 2. I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later in 65 or 66. That really impressed me – Cecil Taylor is an amazing character… Both his music and the way he approaches the instrument are astonishing.
  • 3. I think Andrew Stanton is such an amazing creative mind.

3 Anger

  • 1. All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.
  • 2. Generally speaking if a human being never shows anger then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
  • 3. There is not in nature a thing that makes man so deformed so beastly as doth intemperate anger.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. 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.
  • 2. Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight dinner soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays I go Fridays.
  • 3. There is no more lovely friendly and charming relationship communion or company than a good marriage.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The loftier the building the deeper must the foundation be laid.
  • 2. Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.
  • 3. In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.
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