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A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Category: Great

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. The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?
  • 2. We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary I don't know why people go on about it so much.
  • 3. So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.

2 Amazing

  • 1. It's amazing… to enjoy the results of your labor.
  • 2. It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?
  • 3. Here is the amazing thing about Easter the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.

3 Anger

  • 1. For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface getting it back to that humble and tender spot where with luck it can lose its anger and become compassion again.
  • 2. When anger rises think of the consequences.
  • 3. You can survive with anger but you can't live with it forever.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. And currently there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics Australian Federation my 50th Birthday and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.
  • 2. My last trip to New Orleans was for the fifth anniversary of Katrina and I had the awesome opportunity to bring my family down. We all worked on a house together and met some of the families.
  • 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. In any architecture there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
  • 2. Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
  • 3. All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art like the art of fireworks.
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