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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. In 1981 at age 31 I was voted the best player in basketball and the most valuable player in the league.
  • 2. Admiration of the proletariat like that of dams power stations and aeroplanes is part of the ideology of the machine age.
  • 3. It takes a long time to become young.

2 Amazing

  • 1. My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad coach mentor soldier husband and friend.
  • 2. The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.
  • 3. It's amazing if you know what you want to say how fast it is to write.

3 Anger

  • 1. Forgiveness is the economy of the heart… forgiveness saves the expense of anger the cost of hatred the waste of spirits.
  • 2. My anger with the US was not at first that they had used that weapon – although that anger came later.
  • 3. Beware of him that is slow to anger for when it is long coming it is the stronger when it comes and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. On July 18 we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires Argentina.
  • 2. Last week the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11 we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.
  • 3. Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.
  • 2. All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes or fails to come in the first conception and revision only affects the detail and ornament alas!
  • 3. Engineering medicine business architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent – not with how things are but with how they might be – in short with design.
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