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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. Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age but they die young.
  • 2. Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children and not for the education of all adults of every age?
  • 3. Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others but keep after them until they're fair with you.

2 Amazing

  • 1. My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird amazing stuff.
  • 2. To go to the Oscars for 'Moneyball' – that was pretty amazing.
  • 3. It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers for each rage leaves him less than he had been before – it takes something from him.
  • 2. Every time you get angry you poison your own system.
  • 3. I suppose there's an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. I feel there should have been some recognition of the Spice Girls at this year's 25th anniversary. We flew the flag for Britain around the globe in the 1990s and we achieved a hell of a lot.
  • 2. The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
  • 3. Love grows more tremendously full swift poignant as the years multiply.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
  • 2. People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.
  • 3. To work in architecture you are so much involved with society with politics with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society how it functions how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
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