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Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

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Knowledge,

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John Charles Polanyi
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Category: Knowledge

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. There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age.
  • 2. It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
  • 3. It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Every now and then I have blissful moments of thanking God for all the amazing things that are happening. When I leave the White House after just meeting Obama or when I see my face on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' or when I meet someone who tells me that their daughter is inspired by me those are moments that are incredibly joyful.
  • 2. I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer a marvelous marvelous guitar player and plays really good fiddle.
  • 3. If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

3 Anger

  • 1. What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.
  • 2. It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.
  • 3. Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward and you will have the truth about him.
  • 2. Love grows more tremendously full swift poignant as the years multiply.
  • 3. Actually the year anniversary of what you just heard my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
  • 2. An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking bar at the site.
  • 3. Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.
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