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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

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Knowledge,

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William Ellery Channing
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Category: Knowledge

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 was equally in love with singing and acting from an early age.
  • 2. A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50 and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
  • 3. I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth – I only regret in my chilled age certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

2 Amazing

  • 1. It's amazing how age after age in country after country and in all languages Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.
  • 2. It is pretty amazing. My parents who came from Nicaragua to the U.S. – who would have thought that they would have American kids on the Olympic team? I think that's the epitome of the Olympic dream.
  • 3. The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations sold them to pension funds then sold them short then bought credit default swap insurance on them are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.

3 Anger

  • 1. The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it's my job as a serious investigative journalist to witness all kinds of behaviour and then report back to the audience through the prism of my own anger and bitterness.
  • 2. Keep cool anger is not an argument.
  • 3. The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. I am so excited this year getting to play the 85th Anniversary Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Everyone knows on Thanksgiving morning to get up turn on the TV and watch the parade so to be an actual participant is going to be fun and I'm looking forward to it. I am gonna have to put on my deer hunting gear though to stay warm!
  • 2. Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward and you will have the truth about him.
  • 3. I did that Dior Couture 60th anniversary show in July. It took so long to get ready I think I would have rather been watching.

5 Architecture

  • 1. When I write now I do not invent situation characters or actions but rather structures and discursive forms textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves as in architecture or the plastic arts.
  • 2. We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.
  • 3. If you give people nothingness they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
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