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It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions – especially selfish ones.

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Category: Failure

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 like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.
  • 2. Bashfulness is an ornament to youth but a reproach to old age.
  • 3. To keep the heart unwrinkled to be hopeful kindly cheerful reverent that is to triumph over old age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. God bless you if you have one child but I don't think anybody should have just one child. Everybody needs a sibling. I have siblings and I have so many amazing precious memories with my siblings. I don't know what I would do if I had been an only child.
  • 2. To go to the Oscars for Moneyball – that was pretty amazing. And to be able to go work with Kathryn Bigelow – that's going to be pretty sweet. Hopefully I don't have to go back to being a waiter. That's still my main goal.
  • 3. The thing that's tricky is sometimes the best voices – just because someone hits the big notes and sounds amazing – it doesn't necessarily mean they make the greatest artists.

3 Anger

  • 1. Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.
  • 2. I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.
  • 3. I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me that was fascinating.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. I feel there should have been some recognition of the Spice Girls at this year's 25th anniversary. We flew the flag for Britain around the globe in the 1990s and we achieved a hell of a lot.
  • 2. 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.
  • 3. More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
  • 2. Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
  • 3. We are stymied by regulations limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.
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