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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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Author:

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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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. Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
  • 2. Never say never but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.
  • 3. I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?

2 Amazing

  • 1. I think the amazing thing about gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord which is consistent with the Gospel but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation.
  • 2. I'll tell you Quentin Tarantino really writes the most amazing dialogue.
  • 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. The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
  • 2. A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off roused me into productivity and creativity.
  • 3. Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there take your vows and be married to them for the rest of your life.
  • 2. Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
  • 3. It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
  • 2. I went to school for engineering I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them so I went to architecture school in New York.
  • 3. I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.
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