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A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

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Experience,

Author:

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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Category: Experience

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. Any role that big is going to be a challenge for any actor but for an actor of a young age it's going to be even tougher.
  • 2. Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
  • 3. Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex and at a certain age I did that. But I'm past that age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I have three dogs a cat fish. I'm a huge animal lover. They're amazing.
  • 2. I love Benny Hill. He one of my favourites of aaall time. Like the way Benny did it he was just amazing. Just seeing how he put songs together and comedy and the timing and the sketches. He was way ahead of his time.
  • 3. I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending.

3 Anger

  • 1. Shock confusion fear anger grief and defiance. On Sept. 11 2001 and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance.
  • 2. Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas is a glaring injustice which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it.
  • 3. Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.
  • 2. The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band but now they are really another band so it's all a bit weird.
  • 3. As the third anniversary of the September 11th attacks draws near we must ensure our nation is prepared to handle the continued threat of violence and terrorism on our country.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.
  • 2. Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
  • 3. Architecture is the learned game correct and magnificent of forms assembled in the light.
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