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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

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Knowledge,

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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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. I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.
  • 2. Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
  • 3. An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

2 Amazing

  • 1. It was amazing that during rehearsals without any of the costume on the character was there complete. It just happened. Half the time I didn't know I was doing it.
  • 2. It's nice because success has allowed me to have a blast on stage to be in the studio with amazing people but I find it all a bit bizarre.
  • 3. Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine… so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. Shock confusion fear anger grief and defiance. On Sept. 11 2001 and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance.
  • 2. Obama and his attack dogs have nothing but hate and anger in their hearts and spew it whenever possible.
  • 3. There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
  • 2. The heart of marriage is memories and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns then your marriage is a gift from the gods.
  • 3. There is no more lovely friendly and charming relationship communion or company than a good marriage.

5 Architecture

  • 1. We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
  • 2. Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
  • 3. And when an architect has designed a house with large windows which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.
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