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If we resist our passions it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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. Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
  • 2. No no I was only funny on stage really. I I think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know when I was a child up to about the age of 12.
  • 3. Few women I fear have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I love voice over! I just think it is amazing!
  • 2. I really liked the helicopter pilot in 'Dawn of the Dead' when he gets bitten and comes out of the elevator. That guy was amazing. He did this incredible walk that we didn't even know about until we started shooting.
  • 3. Youth is an amazing thing: I think back on when we did The Lost Boys and I didn't think I could do anything wrong.

3 Anger

  • 1. I am ready to accept all accusations allegations anger – but I have to succeed.
  • 2. Every time you get angry you poison your own system.
  • 3. To talk about balance it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease and disease meaning lack of ease lack of flow… dis-ease. So any time there's disease you're out of balance whether it's jealousy anger greed anxiety fear.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
  • 2. I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year the 20th anniversary of my first solo record.
  • 3. 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.

5 Architecture

  • 1. We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.
  • 2. Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.
  • 3. The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
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