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I'm not the smartest fellow in the world but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

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Intelligence,

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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Category: Intelligence

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. How young can you die of old age?
  • 2. I conceived in art college at the age of 20 near the end of term.
  • 3. While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination… a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.
  • 2. The upside to anger? Getting it out of your system. You got to express your anger. Then you have room for more positive things. If I hold something in a long time and then I speak it it's amazing how the light shines so much brighter.
  • 3. I think women are amazing and women's friendships are like a sisterhood and we should see more of it in television and film.

3 Anger

  • 1. The Anger Management Tour was another beautiful thing. I loved that tour.
  • 2. I share the anger but ultimately to govern this country it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best values of the American people.
  • 3. Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary.
  • 2. A lot of good love can happen in ten years.
  • 3. My last trip to New Orleans was for the fifth anniversary of Katrina and I had the awesome opportunity to bring my family down. We all worked on a house together and met some of the families.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.
  • 2. The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
  • 3. It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?
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