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If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another then I say break the law.

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Henry David Thoreau
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Category: Government

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. Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
  • 2. I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
  • 3. Women lie about their age men lie about their income.

2 Amazing

  • 1. And I thought when I have kids that's the sort of well told silly and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them to. But it was an amazing experience. And I think Shrek is a real classic a fairy tale classic.
  • 2. Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars… It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.
  • 3. I wouldn't be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.

3 Anger

  • 1. For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface getting it back to that humble and tender spot where with luck it can lose its anger and become compassion again.
  • 2. You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.
  • 3. The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame… the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Last week the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11 we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.
  • 2. Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight dinner soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays I go Fridays.
  • 3. 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.

5 Architecture

  • 1. In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
  • 2. I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting something connected to the fine arts.
  • 3. A house is a machine for living in.
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