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However glorious an action in itself it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Category: Great

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. Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and now evolutionary biology.
  • 2. True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
  • 3. The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that from age to age nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Walmart is an amazing story of entrepreneurship and as one of the world's most powerful brands touches millions of lives every day.
  • 2. It was an amazing mistake to lose 10p on every copy because your sleeve is so expensive.
  • 3. Although believers by nature are far from God and children of wrath even as others yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.

3 Anger

  • 1. All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.
  • 2. How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
  • 3. I'm really busted up over this and I'm very very sorry to those people in the audience the blacks the Hispanics whites – everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger and hate and rage and how it came through.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary.
  • 2. This year as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear.
  • 3. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

5 Architecture

  • 1. In fact it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.
  • 2. Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
  • 3. What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.
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