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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 basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going.
  • 2. My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
  • 3. In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook the hard slog is easily overlooked.

2 Amazing

  • 1. If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.
  • 2. It was an amazing experience to work with Michael Jackson who is a legend.
  • 3. Training in taekwondo for eight years and then being able to do it in a film was pretty amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. For every minute you remain angry you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
  • 2. There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
  • 3. The flame of anger bright and brief sharpens the barb of love.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. This anniversary serves to help remind the American people that in the wake of one of the greatest political scandals and misuse of power in our history as a nation scandal produced important reforms that served this nation well for two decades.
  • 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. I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year the 20th anniversary of my first solo record.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Prose is architecture not interior decoration and the Baroque is over.
  • 2. The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
  • 3. Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
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