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A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

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Author:

William F. Buckley Jr.
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Category: History

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. I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.
  • 2. Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
  • 3. The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money still less as is apt to happen when these are abandoned of race but of age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I mean I've always said I have an amazing team and network of friends and people that I work with that you know inspire me and enable me to do what I do.
  • 2. I'm so happy to be able to give kids the opportunity to learn about amazing world of dance and music that I've have been lucky enough to make such a big part of my own life.
  • 3. We want to reinvent the phone. What's the killer app? The killer app is making calls! It's amazing how hard it is to make calls on most phones. We want to let you use contacts like never before – sync your iPhone with your PC or mac.

3 Anger

  • 1. One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
  • 2. Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom because you're on the front lines.
  • 3. I was shocked at the anger toward me.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. This year as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear.
  • 2. See the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it the bitter honesty is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody – 'You must live life this way' – and these guys were bored.
  • 3. The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly.

5 Architecture

  • 1. To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
  • 2. As a designer the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.
  • 3. If a building becomes architecture then it is art.
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