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

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Author:

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. Old age is far more than white hair wrinkles the feeling that it is too late and the game finished that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body but the indifference of the soul.
  • 2. What most persons consider as virtue after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
  • 3. This is the curse of our age even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.
  • 2. I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?
  • 3. They say it's good but I didn't know what I was doing until I got into the suit and they put the moustache on me and somehow when I got all the drag on it came out. It was the most amazing thing. I'm truly extraordinary.

3 Anger

  • 1. He took over anger to intimidate subordinates and in time anger took over him.
  • 2. Men are fair and they have learned not to personalize anger – they can disagree with you and argue to the bone but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.
  • 3. My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

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. Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening May 15 1876 at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
  • 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 logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
  • 2. Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
  • 3. We are stymied by regulations limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.
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