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Being Irish he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

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Saint Patricks Day,

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William Butler Yeats
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Category: Saint Patricks Day

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 were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics and into the age of biology.
  • 2. Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
  • 3. Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied and in solidarity against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. It's been amazing the number of commercials that I've done starting back in 1968. It must be 8 000.
  • 2. I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages – things most people don't get the opportunity to do.
  • 3. I love watching amazing actors and actresses that you can't take your eyes off of because everything they are doing – even if it is just twiddling their thumbs or scratching their eye – it's just interesting.

3 Anger

  • 1. Men are fair and they have learned not to personalize anger – they can disagree with you and argue to the bone but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.
  • 2. Another night I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger.
  • 3. My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
  • 2. That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.
  • 3. I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The intellectual force of the West is still dominant but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning and that less will be based on our models.
  • 2. I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture art and architecture and learned of the existence of the game of GO which I still play.
  • 3. Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
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