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It is easier to know men in general than men in particular.

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Courage,

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Category: Courage

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. It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief as a smart man called it there isn't even more fraud. After all with no God there's no one to ever call you to account and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
  • 2. It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
  • 3. I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward he will look forward with the work.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I auditioned for 'Girls' the fall after I graduated from Yale. The show has been amazing – as close to perfect as it gets!
  • 2. So for my studio purposes I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and to my power amps and I know what I can deliver out of my studio.
  • 3. My parents were amazing people who had no business being together – and they knew it.

3 Anger

  • 1. Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.
  • 2. Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.
  • 3. How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
  • 2. Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.
  • 3. And currently there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics Australian Federation my 50th Birthday and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
  • 2. I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.
  • 3. So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.
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