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Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

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John Kenneth Galbraith
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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. I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.
  • 2. Old age adds to the respect due to virtue but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice it whitens only the hair.
  • 3. We virtually never feel our age but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.

2 Amazing

  • 1. You can be the best actor in the world but if you don't have that one lucky moment it kind of doesn't matter. There are a lot of amazing actors who will never get the chance to prove themselves because they won't have that one lucky moment.
  • 2. I have an amazing relationship with my wife but sometimes there are arguments. It happens.
  • 3. When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring but it's not. It's enriching and fulfilling and an amazing experience. And then when you're a working mother you have to pretend that you feel guilty all day long.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger is a momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.
  • 2. Anger tears me up inside… My own… or anyone else's.
  • 3. If anger proceeds from a great cause it turns to fury if from a small cause it is peevishness and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.

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. Last week the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11 we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.
  • 3. You will reciprocally promise love loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today before God you formulate.

5 Architecture

  • 1. We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.
  • 2. The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
  • 3. Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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