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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words so lesser minds have a talent of talking much and saying nothing.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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. We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.
  • 2. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.
  • 3. We of Africa protest that in this day and age we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I would love to work with Anthony Hopkins I would love to work with Meryl Streep I would love to work with DeNiro I would love to work with Johnny Depp I'd love to work with Brad Pitt Matt Damon Gwyneth Paltrow… I think she's amazing.
  • 2. If you want to go to the mall you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.
  • 3. It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger is never without a reason but seldom with a good one.
  • 2. And I think there's something about conservatives frankly – and the Left when it comes to their channels of persuasion are unpersuasive. They are most of them are hate-filled obscenity-clogged rants of anger and hatred.
  • 3. I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Actually the year anniversary of what you just heard my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.
  • 2. I've been sober for two-and-a-half years My children are happy. In August my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.
  • 3. Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

5 Architecture

  • 1. We are stymied by regulations limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.
  • 2. An important work of architecture will create polemics.
  • 3. Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences and adorned with much and varied learning by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.
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