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A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten ' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Category: Courage

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. There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.
  • 2. Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
  • 3. Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.

2 Amazing

  • 1. You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ whaddya know – I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.
  • 2. The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.
  • 3. Wasim and Waqar were amazing bowlers. I would put them right up there with the best in the world.

3 Anger

  • 1. It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.
  • 2. In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
  • 3. The flame of anger bright and brief sharpens the barb of love.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Love grows more tremendously full swift poignant as the years multiply.
  • 2. You marry somebody you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.
  • 3. Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!

5 Architecture

  • 1. It is impossible as impossible as to raise the dead to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman can never be recalled.
  • 2. Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.
  • 3. Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.
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