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Don't simply retire from something have something to retire to.

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Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Category: Business

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. Elizabeth Peyton the artist known for tiny dazzling portraits of radiant youth is now painting tiny dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.
  • 2. Ours is essentially a tragic age so we refuse to take it tragically.
  • 3. Another principle is the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I imagine my children are going to save me from my vanity and be my passion and fill whatever fears I have of the amazing time I'm having right now being gone.
  • 2. The travel the amazing work I have had the chance to do the meetings with different people are all very inspiring and give me lots of positive energy.
  • 3. In football you always get judged on your last game. Whoever you are or how amazing you are it's the last game that everyone has seen.

3 Anger

  • 1. There is not in nature a thing that makes man so deformed so beastly as doth intemperate anger.
  • 2. Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas is a glaring injustice which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it.
  • 3. The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. 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.
  • 2. Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary.
  • 3. The 150th anniversary of Penn State will highlight what is important and good about this distinguished institution and the fine people and research that it produces.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them not make them worse.
  • 2. Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
  • 3. I love building spaces: architecture furniture all of it probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.
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