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We should often blush for our very best actions if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. In my older age I've learned to take things slower because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.
  • 2. Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
  • 3. I came back to work when my children were two months old. At that early age they seem to have little awareness of anybody but their Raggedy Ann dolls so it wasn't a matter of them missing me. I was missing them.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I'm a big fan of Mashable and TechCrunch and other outlets like that but TechMeme obviously does an amazing job of aggregating.
  • 2. I am incredibly thankful for the strong support I have from my peers in the industry and of course my amazing fans.
  • 3. Just knowing that through my music I actually inspire people is amazing for me and I find it very heartwarming.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger makes dull men witty but it keeps them poor.
  • 2. When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry count to one hundred.
  • 3. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was you could have asked the local florist – because every day Dad gave Mom a rose which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died – she went looking for him because that morning there was no rose.
  • 2. A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love trust partnership tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
  • 3. 1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness patriotism and heroism by our troops our National Guard and Reserves.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business.
  • 2. Architecture tends to consume everything else it has become one's entire life.
  • 3. A house is a machine for living in.
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