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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. People are so busy dreaming the American Dream fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
  • 2. For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30.
  • 3. We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people beautiful beaches great wine wonderful harbors… It's incredibly romantic.
  • 2. Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science.
  • 3. I've always been fascinated with the juxtaposition of technology in music not only in recording but in the keyboard. It's amazing the way you can apply technology to an art form.

3 Anger

  • 1. If a small thing has the power to make you angry does that not indicate something about your size?
  • 2. The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame… the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.
  • 3. Anger's not a good emotion.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it records are made to be broken – it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.
  • 2. There is no more lovely friendly and charming relationship communion or company than a good marriage.
  • 3. 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.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I could have been an architect but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.
  • 2. Architecture of all the arts is the one which acts the most slowly but the most surely on the soul.
  • 3. All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes or fails to come in the first conception and revision only affects the detail and ornament alas!
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