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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Category: Wisdom

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. The surest sign of age is loneliness.
  • 2. No sex age or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.
  • 3. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger which I think without flattering myself I did but I think I certainly have as George Orwell says people do after a certain age the face they deserve.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version but then you write the version that you can write.
  • 2. I knew I'd just done one of the most amazing things that I will ever get a chance to do. Just to be part of a musical that's not your background and to pull it off and to think that we've done something that's really special.
  • 3. No matter how loud the stadium is once you're on that field and that offense walks up to the line it's silent. You can only hear the guys on the field. It's amazing how much concentration you can have when it's required and how powerful your mind is to give it to you.

3 Anger

  • 1. Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio and gets you to work – though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.
  • 2. Obama and his attack dogs have nothing but hate and anger in their hearts and spew it whenever possible.
  • 3. Keep cool anger is not an argument.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we changing continue to love a changed person.
  • 2. I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.
  • 3. This anniversary serves to help remind the American people that in the wake of one of the greatest political scandals and misuse of power in our history as a nation scandal produced important reforms that served this nation well for two decades.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
  • 2. Even at the United Nations where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent one window not so great.
  • 3. Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.
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