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Truth is tough. It will not break like a bubble at the touch nay you may kick it about all day like a football and it will be round and full at evening.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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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. I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.
  • 2. Old age is just a record of one's whole life.
  • 3. There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Being a parent is amazing.
  • 2. The upside to anger? Getting it out of your system. You got to express your anger. Then you have room for more positive things. If I hold something in a long time and then I speak it it's amazing how the light shines so much brighter.
  • 3. At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there get healthy and then eat themselves to death – which is I suppose the right way to do it.

3 Anger

  • 1. There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
  • 2. I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.
  • 3. He that would be angry and sin not must not be angry with anything but sin.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. On July 18 we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires Argentina.
  • 2. Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward and you will have the truth about him.
  • 3. Next month I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture and the language that we use about politics it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.
  • 2. After about the first Millennium Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture which spread throughout Europe much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.
  • 3. An important work of architecture will create polemics.
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