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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. This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
  • 2. I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
  • 3. I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing.

2 Amazing

  • 1. It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.
  • 2. Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of for instance Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.
  • 3. It's amazing to me that young people will still pick up a cigarette.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger is a short madness.
  • 2. When anger rises think of the consequences.
  • 3. Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
  • 2. Next month I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.
  • 3. Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!

5 Architecture

  • 1. The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
  • 2. But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.
  • 3. Every time a student walks past a really urgent expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college it can help reassure him that he does have that mind does have that soul.
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