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I was a weedy kid not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.

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Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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Category: Strength

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. Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
  • 2. And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight – I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball because I was a scrub – there were things that I liked about it.
  • 3. Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

2 Amazing

  • 1. It's wonderful to be appreciated for being quirky and to see Zooey Deschanel and the quirky indie film types get mainstream play is amazing for women because women are much more complicated than what we've see on TV in the past.
  • 2. After all these years it's still amazing what Obama is allowed to get away with. He says low gas prices in 2009 were caused by a terrible economy but then claims that the lower number of illegal aliens crossing the border is because of his border policies not the same lousy economy.
  • 3. So when I go home sometimes even when I had an amazing game I always think about what I missed.

3 Anger

  • 1. In the final analysis the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within.
  • 2. He took over anger to intimidate subordinates and in time anger took over him.
  • 3. Allowing children to show their guilt show their grief show their anger takes the sting out of the situation.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed and every single one of his friends still after all these years… it's unbelievable.
  • 2. Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.
  • 3. Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!

5 Architecture

  • 1. I don't divide architecture landscape and gardening to me they are one.
  • 2. My buildings will be my legacy… they will speak for me long after I'm gone.
  • 3. I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s and into my 30s I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.
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