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Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

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Saint Patricks Day,

Author:

James Joyce
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Category: Saint Patricks Day

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. Old age calm expanded broad with the haughty breadth of the universe old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
  • 2. I ask you to pray for me for once age has overtaken us we find consolation only in religion.
  • 3. Sally Field looks amazing in general never mind her age! She's a phenomenally talented actress and has had a career spanning so many decades.

2 Amazing

  • 1. My wife is amazing. She had to know she was getting into a heap of trouble when we met.
  • 2. Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master his philosophy his movement both physically and mentally were very strong.
  • 3. I don't like staying in hotels. I like to be in my own bed. San Diego as a city is really awesome. The only hard part of it for me is that I'm away from my family and my house. But as far as shooting down there we get amazing locations and the crew is really really stellar down there. They are really fun.

3 Anger

  • 1. Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political financial and military support and the faith of Iraqi citizens in their new government has been severely undermined.
  • 2. Anger is a transient hatred or at least very like it.
  • 3. In plain terms a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood there's an anger.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly.
  • 2. You marry somebody you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.
  • 3. The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
  • 2. The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them not make them worse.
  • 3. Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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