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Don't simply retire from something have something to retire to.

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Harry Emerson Fosdick
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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. The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
  • 2. You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says but from what he fails to say and do.
  • 3. Filth and old age I'm sure you will agree are powerful wardens upon chastity.

2 Amazing

  • 1. It's amazing to me that people have any interest in such a low-level sex scandal. If I were sleeping with a congressman maybe but I'm a nobody and the people I'm writing about are nobodies.
  • 2. I'd like to share my experiences and the lessons I've learned and hopefully create some amazing fun courses.
  • 3. I definitely look up to Meryl Streep because she's been in so many amazing movies and I just think that she's one of the greatest actresses out there. I also look up to Jennifer Lawrence especially knowing her and knowing that she is so awesome and so nice.

3 Anger

  • 1. My humour has always come from anger but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.
  • 2. Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
  • 3. Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. But to sustain a marriage for 50 years you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.'
  • 2. Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening May 15 1876 at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
  • 3. So I think you have to marry for the right reasons and marry the right person.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it so I signed up for acting instead.
  • 2. Less is more.
  • 3. The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
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