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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Category: Learning

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 terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it the speed of his acceptance.
  • 2. In the television age the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
  • 3. What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I don't want to wake up and not truly be enjoying my life and these amazing things around me.
  • 2. The body is an amazing machine… If you eat the right things your body will perform incredibly well!
  • 3. I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version but then you write the version that you can write.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.
  • 2. Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
  • 3. Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening May 15 1876 at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
  • 2. Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward and you will have the truth about him.
  • 3. Marriage is the most natural state of man and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
  • 2. Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.
  • 3. I love a lot of things and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do whether it be gardening or architecture or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.
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