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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

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Robert Louis Stevenson
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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. Brain power improves by brain use just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population from school days to late middle age now have very complicated lives indeed.
  • 2. Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age my hobby became thinking and finding connections.
  • 3. Back in the 1960s I saw Peter Paul and Mary. I was at that age about 14 and I was mesmerized.

2 Amazing

  • 1. There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married amazing things like that. I've been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day a pagan ceremony.
  • 2. It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.
  • 3. The opportunity number one to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.

3 Anger

  • 1. We're taught to be ashamed of confusion anger fear and sadness and to me they're of equal value to happiness excitement and inspiration.
  • 2. Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life I frequently precipitated what I feared most the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.
  • 3. Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
  • 2. Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary.
  • 3. My last trip to New Orleans was for the fifth anniversary of Katrina and I had the awesome opportunity to bring my family down. We all worked on a house together and met some of the families.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.
  • 2. A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
  • 3. As a designer the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.
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