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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. The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes but you don't change at all. And that of course causes great confusion.
  • 2. The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
  • 3. Maybe it is something to do with age but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

2 Amazing

  • 1. 'Breaking Bad' is the best the greatest the most amazing thing I have ever watched on television.
  • 2. It's amazing the relationships you forge in a kitchen. When you cooperate in an environment that's hot. Where there's a lot of knives. You're trusting your well-being with someone you've never before met or known.
  • 3. How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?

3 Anger

  • 1. Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see one can only be angry with those he respects.
  • 2. Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway and those are punished most who most obey.
  • 3. Anger may repast with thee for an hour but not repose for a night the continuance of anger is hatred the continuance of hatred turns malice.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly.
  • 2. More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
  • 3. 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.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
  • 2. Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.
  • 3. When I'm in London Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.
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