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It is not doing the thing we like to do but liking the thing we have to do that makes life blessed.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Category: Life

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. Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
  • 2. Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.
  • 3. I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I liked the way they treated the first second and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline.
  • 2. I thought it was amazing to work with authors to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.
  • 3. Brains don't really smell but what's amazing about the brain is that it's almost like scrambled eggs or soft tofu almost like a gel. The brain controls so much of what we do but you could put your finger right through it.

3 Anger

  • 1. The anger of lovers renews their love.
  • 2. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
  • 3. I did not think that I was angry but clearly anger was reflected in my writing. I did not think that I had been affected emotionally but it was clear from my writing that I was still very emotional about the trial some six months after it ended.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Last week the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11 we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.
  • 2. I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year the 20th anniversary of my first solo record.
  • 3. And this year is going to be the 25th anniversary of the 17-0 team the only undefeated season.

5 Architecture

  • 1. You look at the steamboat the railroad the car the airplane – not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.
  • 2. The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.
  • 3. Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.
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