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Most of us can remember a time when a birthday – especially if it was one's own – brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

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Robert Staughton Lynd
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Category: Birthday

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. You can't help getting older but you don't have to get old.
  • 2. To own the dominant or only newspaper in a mid-sized American city was for many decades a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age however no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.
  • 3. I've gotten crankier in my old age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. If you pay attention to the world it's an amazing place. If you don't it's whatever you think it is.
  • 2. We watch a lot of Discovery Channel shows like 'The Biggest Loser' and even 'Amazing Race.' You learn a lot about the world it's fun and nobody's interested in beating anybody down. And then the opposite: I'm a huge fan of 'Survivor.'
  • 3. First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing but except on the sunniest days you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger is a short madness.
  • 2. The flame of anger bright and brief sharpens the barb of love.
  • 3. I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. 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.
  • 2. On this important anniversary we must remember that while we have come a long way in eliminating barriers critical work remains to ensure all Americans can live up to their full potential.
  • 3. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
  • 2. Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
  • 3. I was a student at Columbia College actually in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.
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