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But whether it be dream or truth to do well is what matters. If it be truth for truth's sake. If not then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

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Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Category: Truth

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 a young age I was interested in comic books which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.
  • 2. Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about and were.
  • 3. Back in the 1960s I saw Peter Paul and Mary. I was at that age about 14 and I was mesmerized.

2 Amazing

  • 1. It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you.
  • 2. You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
  • 3. We used to go to Studio 54 – an amazing place.

3 Anger

  • 1. It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap but it can make great changes happen.
  • 2. All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.
  • 3. Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it records are made to be broken – it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.
  • 2. As the third anniversary of the September 11th attacks draws near we must ensure our nation is prepared to handle the continued threat of violence and terrorism on our country.
  • 3. Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architecture is a slow business and city planning even slower.
  • 2. Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.
  • 3. The interior of the house personifies the private world the exterior of it is part of the outside world.
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