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One may know how to gain a victory and know not how to use it.

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Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Category: War

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. Any role that big is going to be a challenge for any actor but for an actor of a young age it's going to be even tougher.
  • 2. America doesn't reward people of my age either in day-to-day life or for their performances.
  • 3. The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I think 'Game of Thrones' was extraordinary. I want to do some period pieces. It would be lovely to tell great stories that is my main ambition. And to be working with amazing creators.
  • 2. I'm the poster boy for Propecia. It's amazing.
  • 3. Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?

3 Anger

  • 1. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
  • 2. My anger with the US was not at first that they had used that weapon – although that anger came later.
  • 3. Our task of course is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think in fact that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The day before the anniversary of D-Day we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.
  • 2. Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
  • 3. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Every one who has a heart however ignorant of architecture he may be feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.
  • 2. If architecture is as is sometimes said music set in concrete then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.
  • 3. The greatest advances of civilization whether in architecture or painting in science and literature in industry or agriculture have never come from centralized government.
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