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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. A truly great book should be read in youth again in maturity and once more in old age as a fine building should be seen by morning light at noon and by moonlight.
  • 2. I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry it would be filtered through the lens of race sex and age.
  • 3. Every great architect is – necessarily – a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time his day his age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending.
  • 2. I know no subject more elevating more amazing more ready to the poetical enthusiasm the philosophical reflection and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety such beauty such magnificence?
  • 3. I love Louisiana. It's amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face women have been trained to cut off anger.
  • 2. I suppose there's an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay.
  • 3. I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger revenge or frustration.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. On July 18 we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires Argentina.
  • 2. We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we changing continue to love a changed person.
  • 3. So while an incredible amount of progress has been made on this fifth anniversary I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you – and fight alongside you – until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back all the way.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
  • 2. Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup but the tea.
  • 3. We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.
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