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We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

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Alexis de Tocqueville
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Category: Business

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. No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life as not to receive new information from age and experience.
  • 2. Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
  • 3. Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I'm not a kid anymore. And I'm excited for all the amazing things to come.
  • 2. It's amazing how over time a person's perspective can be altered.
  • 3. The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.

3 Anger

  • 1. My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior but should be based on the facts.
  • 2. Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.
  • 3. Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band but now they are really another band so it's all a bit weird.
  • 2. Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight dinner soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays I go Fridays.
  • 3. We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architecture of all the arts is the one which acts the most slowly but the most surely on the soul.
  • 2. If architecture had nothing to do with art it would be astonishingly easy to build houses but the architect's task – his most difficult task – is always that of selecting.
  • 3. All real education is the architecture of the soul.
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