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Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind it don't matter.
  • 2. Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents and when age finally stirs their curiosity there is no parent left to tell them.
  • 3. There was no respect for youth when I was young and now that I am old there is no respect for age I missed it coming and going.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I want to be a morning-talk-show host. I love Kelly Ripa's job. She gets to live in New York and has this amazing job hosting a talk show.
  • 2. But as far as for I think it will be amazing you know where I find myself years from now because of this film. It's just amazing I think everybody's going to kind of know this film and because of it me. So I you know it's crazy.
  • 3. I don't think I'm such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

3 Anger

  • 1. Shock confusion fear anger grief and defiance. On Sept. 11 2001 and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance.
  • 2. Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
  • 3. My anger with the US was not at first that they had used that weapon – although that anger came later.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. But to sustain a marriage for 50 years you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.'
  • 2. You marry somebody you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.
  • 3. 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.

5 Architecture

  • 1. In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
  • 2. Less is more.
  • 3. The English light is so very subtle so very soft and misty that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
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