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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others but only those who have greater designs.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

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1 Age

  • 1. A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that.
  • 2. I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers.
  • 3. Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I know plenty of actresses in their early thirties who look amazing although there's that old saying: 'Ladies get older men get more distinguished.'
  • 2. It's been an amazing year of individual performances.
  • 3. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind amazing things will happen.

3 Anger

  • 1. Never go to bed angry stay up and fight.
  • 2. Expressing anger is a form of public littering.
  • 3. For every minute you remain angry you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. But to sustain a marriage for 50 years you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.'
  • 2. Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.
  • 3. Next month I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.

5 Architecture

  • 1. If a building becomes architecture then it is art.
  • 2. Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking but all in harmony together.
  • 3. There is a lot of interest in the arts music theatre filmmaking engineering architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.
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