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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement a mutual adjustment of interests an interchange of services given and received it is in sum simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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. Old age is a shipwreck.
  • 2. There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century are now selling more oil than they find and are thus in the throes of liquidation.
  • 3. Youth is the gift of nature but age is a work of art.

2 Amazing

  • 1. It's nice because success has allowed me to have a blast on stage to be in the studio with amazing people but I find it all a bit bizarre.
  • 2. It's amazing what sleep does for your looks.
  • 3. I have a lot of amazing women you know women in my life who have been an example for me of what not to do.

3 Anger

  • 1. People are unjust to anger – it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.
  • 2. That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand failure follows. The anger is OK but it has to serve the interests of the heart frankly.
  • 3. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. 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.
  • 2. Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.
  • 3. The heart of marriage is memories and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns then your marriage is a gift from the gods.

5 Architecture

  • 1. A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
  • 2. Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
  • 3. Form follows function.
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