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It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

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Intelligence,

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Alfred North Whitehead
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Category: Intelligence

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. An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
  • 2. To keep the heart unwrinkled to be hopeful kindly cheerful reverent – that is to triumph over old age.
  • 3. I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now maybe things would happen for me but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians 12 dancers two major guest stars 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie. The networks just wouldn't spend the money today.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Gwen Stefani has amazing style. I used to really love Courtney Love and anything she wore I loved. Or Chloe Sevigny because I really love that sort of classic look and I like being girly and flowery and wearing little D&ampG dresses. I wear hats a lot too. I think it goes back to when I was a bit grungy and was a skater girl for a bit.
  • 2. So now cut to ten years later and I'm making this amazing contract with Pantene. It's incredible.
  • 3. This band has never had an argument. It's just amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned.
  • 2. Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
  • 3. In plain terms a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood there's an anger.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.
  • 2. Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
  • 3. We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Information and inspiration are everywhere… history art architecture everything an illustrator needs. Europe is after all the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.
  • 2. In Los Angeles by the time you're 35 you're older than most of the buildings.
  • 3. Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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