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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Category: Wisdom

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. The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
  • 2. And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight – I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball because I was a scrub – there were things that I liked about it.
  • 3. I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age who are still in the process of forming themselves as women and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Youth is an amazing thing: I think back on when we did The Lost Boys and I didn't think I could do anything wrong.
  • 2. Being a parent is amazing.
  • 3. I filmed 'Albatross' before I got 'Downton.' It's a coming-of-age movie about this girl who leaps into this family's life like a whirlwind. She's ballsy and brash and wonderful it was such an amazing character to play.

3 Anger

  • 1. We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
  • 2. Yeah to me acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.
  • 3. All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike friendship anger or pity.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out she'll kill me.
  • 2. Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
  • 3. The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architecture aims at Eternity.
  • 2. Architecture begins where engineering ends.
  • 3. In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.
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