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It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

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Robert Green Ingersoll
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Category: Education

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. When you're my age and you see a story you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.
  • 2. As men get older the toys get more expensive.
  • 3. To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I'm definitely doing better. I never realized that I would get the support that I've gotten from everybody – from my fans to people that I've idolized my whole life. So it's overwhelming it's amazing and I believe that everything happens for a reason so I'm in a really good place right now.
  • 2. I don't think I'm such an amazing person who needs to be written about.
  • 3. It's amazing how everyone has an opinion on how you should live your life.

3 Anger

  • 1. In plain terms a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood there's an anger.
  • 2. I was shocked at the anger toward me.
  • 3. Anybody can become angry – that is easy but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose and in the right way – that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening May 15 1876 at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
  • 2. Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward and you will have the truth about him.
  • 3. This anniversary serves to help remind the American people that in the wake of one of the greatest political scandals and misuse of power in our history as a nation scandal produced important reforms that served this nation well for two decades.

5 Architecture

  • 1. They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
  • 2. Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
  • 3. Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.
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