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A civilization is a heritage of beliefs customs and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries elements difficult at times to justify by logic but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere since they open up for man his inner distance.

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Category: Knowledge

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. Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.
  • 2. High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then – children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.
  • 3. My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her like a bank note for two 20s.

2 Amazing

  • 1. 'The Dance Scene' is basically the most amazing dance show in the world and it follows me as a creative director. You see how I maintain that creativity.
  • 2. There's such an array of brilliant roles for young women. You read all these amazing young women going through different stages in their life – different stages different fascinations different textualities different friendships.
  • 3. I'd love to write something for a male protagonist. That's sort of the next frontier for me. I think it'd be really amazing to write the kind of parts that I love for women but for a guy.

3 Anger

  • 1. I suppose there's an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay.
  • 2. The Anger Management Tour was another beautiful thing. I loved that tour.
  • 3. The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary.
  • 2. I've been sober for two-and-a-half years My children are happy. In August my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.
  • 3. Presently the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History has been brought about to encourage and sponsor a variety of historical activities that advance our understanding of the American Jewish experience as it marks this milestone anniversary.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
  • 2. In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.
  • 3. Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.
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