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It is impossible in our condition of Society not to be sometimes a Snob.

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William Makepeace Thackeray
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Category: Society

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. You'd think that in this age especially in the 21st century – especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made – that we would figure out how to tackle abuse.
  • 2. Study is the bane of childhood the oil of youth the indulgence of adulthood and a restorative in old age.
  • 3. There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America but I remember as being a very very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air the punk rock movement made sense.

2 Amazing

  • 1. When taxidermy is done well it's an amazing piece of art.
  • 2. France and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.
  • 3. Of all the planets apart from Earth in our solar system Mars is the most hospitable. Yeah. Right. Better keep my visit short. And yet despite the discomfort the danger I love it here. I love coming back for these imaginary vacations. The sights are amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. As far as having peace within myself the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.
  • 2. You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry terribly angry about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.
  • 3. Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
  • 2. Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
  • 3. Next month I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.
  • 2. I have no requirements for a style of architecture.
  • 3. I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business.
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