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It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

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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. I'm not busy… a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.
  • 2. Invention is the talent of youth as judgment is of age.
  • 3. For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I've been very fortunate to be able to jump around. I just did this really wonderful film called Map of the World. That was a real amazing dramatic story. Then I did a movie called Company Men a little comedy about the Bay of Pigs.
  • 2. It was amazing that a play that seems dated in this world… A man whose best friend is a six-foot white rabbit… But it caught on especially with young people – they surprised me most of all.
  • 3. First of all plain and simple you have no real idea of what it means to be famous until you become famous. It's a double-edged sword. Obviously there are a lot of amazing things about fame but there are also a lot of challenging things about it.

3 Anger

  • 1. Let us not look back in anger nor forward in fear but around in awareness.
  • 2. Every time you get angry you poison your own system.
  • 3. I also had to work through the violation of my date rape my unhealthy relationships with men my anger toward the people involved in the scandal and those who exploited me afterwards.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The 150th anniversary of Penn State will highlight what is important and good about this distinguished institution and the fine people and research that it produces.
  • 2. Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse hopefully enduring and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
  • 3. Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.
  • 2. To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
  • 3. Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
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