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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. Believe me that was a happy age before the days of architects before the days of builders.
  • 2. TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary with independent films you just can't.
  • 3. Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education age income gender or race.

2 Amazing

  • 1. At 13 I realized that I could fix anything electronic. It was amazing I could just do it. I started a business repairing radios. It grew to be one of the largest in Philadelphia.
  • 2. Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.
  • 3. It's amazing to see places like Madison Square Garden on the schedule again.

3 Anger

  • 1. I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational but I don't think that translates into anger.
  • 2. It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap but it can make great changes happen.
  • 3. There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.
  • 2. Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.
  • 3. Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture it's really difficult.
  • 2. We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.
  • 3. Don't clap too hard – it's a very old building.
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