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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. Alas after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
  • 2. If you read back in the Bible the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order.
  • 3. Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Children are amazing and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale and of course I teach at Columbia NYU and that's nice and I love students but the most fun of all are the real little ones the young ones.
  • 2. People always think that if you eat anything as a model it's amazing. I used to tease them and say you know I'm going to throw up afterwards.
  • 3. It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.

3 Anger

  • 1. There's a lot of bitterness there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.
  • 2. Speak the truth do not yield to anger give if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
  • 3. The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul angry or gentle. Anger is just and pity is just but judgement is never just.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. There is no more lovely friendly and charming relationship communion or company than a good marriage.
  • 2. Mr. Speaker I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1 2006.
  • 3. I did that Dior Couture 60th anniversary show in July. It took so long to get ready I think I would have rather been watching.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The loftier the building the deeper must the foundation be laid.
  • 2. Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.
  • 3. Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion some polemic I think is good. It shows that people are interested people are involved.
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