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Although modesty is natural to man it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

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Knowledge,

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

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Category: Knowledge

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. I appreciate and enjoy my age.
  • 2. I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?
  • 3. Whatever you may look like marry a man your own age – as your beauty fades so will his eyesight.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone learning some French.
  • 2. What I've enjoyed most though is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn – I love it!
  • 3. My wife is amazing. She had to know she was getting into a heap of trouble when we met.

3 Anger

  • 1. There's no anger ever in a spiritual. There's always the dream of a hope of a better day coming. That God understands the troubles that I'm experiencing.
  • 2. Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
  • 3. Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it records are made to be broken – it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.
  • 2. I was always very grateful to 'em and am grateful to 'em now. I went back a couple of years ago and did their 20th anniversary show. But the longer I stayed on Hee Haw the worse things got for me musically.
  • 3. The heart of marriage is memories and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns then your marriage is a gift from the gods.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.
  • 2. Architecture is politics.
  • 3. The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
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