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Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

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Robert Staughton Lynd
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Growing up in Nashville especially in a music business family means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.

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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women and for the healing of the nations.

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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. He who has not the spirit of this age has all the misery of it.
  • 2. A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.
  • 3. Our Age of Anxiety is in great part the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.
  • 2. Usher is amazing. He's perfection to me as a performer. He gets down.
  • 3. I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast – that's the best award of all.

3 Anger

  • 1. I think there is a big difference between expressing the pain and anger that many African Americans and other people of color may feel versus language that I think now crosses the line and goes into hate.
  • 2. For every minute you remain angry you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
  • 3. 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.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary.
  • 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. Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight dinner soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays I go Fridays.

5 Architecture

  • 1. To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
  • 2. In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
  • 3. The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.
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