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It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.

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Alexander McCall Smith
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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. I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.
  • 2. If children are not introduced to music at an early age I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.
  • 3. In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it and given a family character as it were to the century.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim.
  • 2. It's the degree of success and the length of time that is amazing.
  • 3. But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how a documentary film has to be made.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.
  • 2. What I needed most was to love and to be loved eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy by suspicions and fear by burst of anger and quarrels.
  • 3. Take the high road. No matter how much strife and consternation frustration and anger you might be confronted with – don't go to that level.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.
  • 2. Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was you could have asked the local florist – because every day Dad gave Mom a rose which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died – she went looking for him because that morning there was no rose.
  • 3. 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.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
  • 2. I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.
  • 3. In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
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